#0449 · 🦊 mammals
Chimpanzee
🇳🇱 Chimpansee ·Pan troglodytes
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Scott Bowers · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Nik Borrow · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Scott Bowers · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © gillbsydney · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © David Bygott · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Barna Takats · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Ted Floyd · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Hélène Maire · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The common chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ), also known as the robust chimpanzee , is a species of great ape. Colloquially, the common chimpanzee is often called the chimpanzee (or "chimp"), though this term can be used to refer to both species in the genus Pan : the common chimpanzee and the closely related bonobo, formerly called the pygmy chimpanzee. Evidence from fossils and DNA sequencing shows both species of chimpanzee are the sister taxon to the modern human lineage.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 2,363 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in 1775 (251 years ago).
- Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Chimpanzee
- Nederlands
- Chimpansee
- scientific name
- Pan troglodytes
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Primates
- family
- Hominidae
- IUCN Red List
- EN · endangered
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,363
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
IUCN in Dutch: bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Hominidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43577, Wikidata Q4126704, GBIF 5219534, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.