They are also targeted by poachers for bushmeat, traditional medicines and also capture for the illegal pet trade. They are critically endangered, heavily threatened by the loss of their habitat - something accelerated by deforestation and the expansion of human agriculture.
Along with bonobos, they are the closest living relatives of human beings, sharing more than 98% of our DNA. The Western chimpanzee (or Pan troglodytes verus) is a subspecies of the common chimpanzee native to the forests of Guinea, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast. The Western Chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes verus) is a mid-sized African primate featured in the Standard Edition of Planet Zoo.
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