Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee

Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee
Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Pan
Species: P. troglodytes
Subspecies: P. t. ellioti
Trinomial name
Pan troglodytes ellioti

The Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) is a subspecies of the common chimpanzee which inhabits the rainforests along the border of Nigeria and Cameroon. Male Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees can weigh as much as 70 kilos with a body length of up to 1.2 metres. Females are significantly smaller.

The Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee is recognised as the most threatened and least distributed of all the common chimpanzee subspecies, and without a dramatic change to human behaviour in the area, there is a likelihood of extinction in the coming decades.[1] A June 2008 report said the Edumanom Forest Reserve reserve was the last known site for chimpanzees in the Niger Delta.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Chimpanzee Conservation - Cameroon". africanconservation.org. http://www.africanconservation.org/content/view/17/340. Retrieved 2009-10-11. [dead link]
  2. ^ "NIGERIA BIODIVERSITY AND TROPICAL FORESTRY ASSESSMENT". USAID. June 2008. p. 76. http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADN536.pdf. Retrieved 2010-09-18. 

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