Description of African Great Apes Chart

The chart, "African Great Apes," is a histogram displaying estimated population sizes for all 9 known subspecies of African Great Apes. All are currently listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)as endangered or critically endangered. The scientific and English common names and population sizes for each species or subspecies are listed below.

African Great Apes
Scientific Name English name Number
Pan troglodytes verus Western Chimpanzee 12,000
P. t. troglodytes Central Chimpanzee 80,000
P. t. schweinfurthi Eastern Chimpanzee 13,000
P. t. vellerosus E. Nigerian-W. Cameroon Chimpanzee unknown
Pan paniscus Bonobo 5,000
Gorilla gorilla gorilla Western Lowland Gorilla 100,000
G. g. diehli Cross River gorilla 200
G. beringei graueri Eastern lowland (Grauer's) gorilla unknown
G. b. beringei Mountain gorilla 650