Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee [SEP] parent taxon
Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee
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 and a height of 1.6 metres. Females are significantly smaller.
Conservation.
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
Bissau, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Ghana
- Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee, "P. troglodytes ellioti" (also known as "P. t. vellerosus"), in Nigeria and Cameroon
- Eastern chimpanzee, "P. troglodytes schweinfurthii", in the Central African Republic, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Zambia
- Southeastern chimpanzee, "P. troglodytes marungensis", in Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda