Chimpanzee
Scientific name: Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775)
Overview
The chimpanzee, commonly abbreviated to chimp, is a medium-sized great ape species found in the forests and savannas of equatorial Africa. It has four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed one. The chimpanzee shares the genus Pan with the bonobo. Evidence from fossils and DNA sequencing shows that the two species are humans' closest living relatives. The chimpanzee is bigger and more robust than the bonobo. It is covered in coarse black hair but has a bare face, fingers, toes, palms of the hands, and soles of the feet.
From the Wikipedia article “Chimpanzee”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Endangered on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2.
Where it lives
The Catalogue of Life records it in: Africa.
Common names
Also known in English as Common Chimpanzee, Robust Chimpanzee, Savanna Chimpanzee.
Names in other languages (13)
- Arabic
- شمبانزي شائع
- Chinese
- 黑猩猩
- French
- Chimpanzé
- German
- Gemeiner Schimpanse, Schimpanse
- Hindi
- वनमानुष
- Indonesian
- simpanse biasa
- Japanese
- チンパンジー
- Persian
- شامپانزه معمولی
- Portuguese
- Chimpanzé-comum
- Russian
- обыкновенный шимпанзе
- Spanish
- Chimpancé, Chimpancé común
- Turkish
- Bayağı şempanze
- Urdu
- چمپانزی
Related animals
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names and range.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q4126704, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Chimpanzee”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — Giles Laurent, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
- Range map — User:Luis Fernández García, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026