Fauna of the Republic of the Congo

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Chapters: Birds of the Republic of the Congo, Mammals of the Republic of the Congo, Reptiles of the Republic of the Congo, Common Chimpanzee, Bongo, List of mammals of the Republic of the Congo, African buffalo, African Bush Elephant, Warthog, Western Gorilla, Common Waxbill, Lesser Flamingo, Bushbuck, Eastern gorilla, African Fish Eagle, Kob, Common Kusimanse, Giant forest hog, Orange-cheeked Waxbill, Waterbuck, Hartebeest, Red River Hog, Cape Grass Lizard, Black-collared Lovebird, African Manatee, Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu, Lesser Swamp-warbler, Cut-throat Finch, Aucoumea klaineana, Green-backed Twinspot, Zebra Waxbill, Bronze Mannikin, African Striped Weasel, African Grey Hornbill, Sitatunga, Guinea Turaco, Roan Antelope, Winding Cisticola, Blue Duiker, Bohor Reedbuck, Red-faced Cisticola, African palm civet, Siffling Cisticola, Blue-headed Wood Dove, African Firefinch, Black-and-white Mannikin, Southern Reedbuck, Black-billed Turaco, Magpie Mannikin, Black-throated Firefinch, Chestnut-breasted Negrofinch, Chapin's Crombec, Whistling Cisticola, White-breasted Negrofinch, Platyallabes tihoni, Black-bellied Seedcracker, Fawn-breasted Waxbill, Locustfinch, Western Bluebill, Blue-breasted Cordon-bleu, Grey-headed Negrofinch, Grey-headed Oliveback, Pale-fronted Negrofinch, Red-crested Turaco, Orange-winged Pytilia, Black-headed Waxbill, Black-tailed Waxbill, Woodhouse's Antpecker, Brown Twinspot, Red-billed Quailfinch, Chapin's Mountain-babbler, Lanistes neritoides, Grant's Bluebill, Adam's Horseshoe Bat, Pale-billed Firefinch, Ituri Batis, Junodia spinosa, Mesoperipatus. Excerpt: The common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), also known as the robust chimpanzee, is a great ape. The name troglodytes, Greek for 'cave-dweller', was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his Handbuch der Naturgeschichte (Handbook of Natural History) published in 1779. Colloquially, the common chimpanzee is often called the chimpanzee (or simply 'chimp'), though technically this term refers 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 show that both species of chimpanzees are the sister group to the modern human lineage. The common chimpanzee is an endangered species. Jane Goodall undertook the first long-term field study of the common chimpanzee, begun in Tanzania at Gombe Stream National Park in 1960. Other long-term study sites begun in 1960 include A. Kortlandt in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Junichiro Itani in Mahale Mountains National Park in Tanzania. Current understanding of the species' typical behaviors and social organization are formed largely from Goodall's ongoing 50-year Gombe research study. DNA evidence published in 2005 suggests the bonobo and common chimpanzee species separated from each other less than one million years ago (similar in relation between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals). The chimpanzee line split from the last common ancestor of the human line approximately six million years ago. Because no species other than Homo sapiens has survived from the human line of that branching, both chimpanzee species are the closest living relatives of humans. The chimpanzee's genus, Pan, diverged from the gorilla's genus about seven million years ago. Several subspecies of the common chimpanzee have been recognized: Relationships among apes. The numbers in this diagram a...