The chimpanzee (acrylic painting) by stuart46

The chimpanzee (acrylic painting)

One of my acrylic paintings this one is of the chimpanzee,
The chimpanzee (/ˌtʃɪmpænˈziː/; Pan troglodytes), also simply known as the chimp, is a species of great ape native to the forests and savannahs of tropical Africa. It has four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed one. When its close relative, the bonobo, was more commonly known as the pygmy chimpanzee, this species was often called the common chimpanzee or the robust chimpanzee. The chimpanzee and the bonobo are the only species in the genus Pan.

The chimpanzee is covered in coarse black hair but has a bare face, fingers, toes, palms of the hands, and soles of the feet. It is larger and more robust than the bonobo, weighing 40–70 kg (88–154 lb) for males and 27–50 kg (60–110 lb) for females and standing 150 cm (4 ft 11 in). Evidence from fossils and DNA sequencing shows that Pan is a sister taxon to the human lineageand is thus humans' closest living relative. The chimpanzee genome contains coding regions for 18,759 proteins which is within ten percent compared to 20,383 proteins for humans.
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