Eastern chimpanzee
| Eastern chimpanzee | |
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| A mother with a young at Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Genus: | Pan |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | P. t. schweinfurthii
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| Trinomial name | |
| Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii (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.