- a very social great ape of sub-Saharan Africa, belonging to the genus Pan and having a brown-to-black coat, a relatively hairless face with a rounded muzzle, prominent ears, and hands adapted for knuckle-walking, and noted for its intelligence and humanlike behavior: both species, the common chimpanzee (P. troglodytes) and the bonobo (P. paniscus), are greatly reduced in number and considered endangered.
- a gregarious and intelligent anthropoid ape, Pan troglodytes, inhabiting forests in central W Africa
