🦋 Family

Hominidae

6 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › Mammalia › Primates › Hominidae

Pan troglodytes (common chimpanzee) is a great ape with documented tool use, long used for scientific research worldwide.

Gorilla gorilla, the western gorilla, is a large great ape with distinct social behavior, diet, and physical traits.

Eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei) is a large hominid with two subspecies, native to central African forests and herbivorous.

Homo sapiens, humans, are the only extant widespread primate of genus Homo with unique intelligence and global distribution.

Pongo pygmaeus, the Bornean orangutan, is the largest extant arboreal ape native to Borneo's rainforests.

Pongo abelii, the Sumatran orangutan, is an arboreal great ape with distinct physical traits, tool use, and five life stages.

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Cercopithecidae 69 species Callitrichidae 22 species Cebidae 20 species Atelidae 18 species Pitheciidae 13 species Lemuridae 12 species Hylobatidae 10 species Indriidae 8 species

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