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Eastern chimpanzee | |
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A mother with a young at Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Hominidae |
Subfamily: | Homininae |
Tribe: | Hominini |
Genus: | Pan |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | P. t. schweinfurthii[1]
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Trinomial name | |
Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii[1] (Giglioli, 1872)
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The eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) is a subspecies of the common chimpanzee. It is native to the Central African Republic, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania.[2]