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Specimen information:

Catalog number: MZB 95-0258
Scientific name : Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775)
Common name: Chimpanzee
Element: skull
Collecting date: 10/03/1995
Sex: male
Acquisition source: Parc Zoològic de Barcelona
Acquisition Date: 17/03/1995
Biometrics - skull: Height 103.2mm X Width 134.6mm X Depth 221.1mm

Information about the species:

Chordata ,Vertebrata ,Mammalia ,Primates ,Hominidae ,Homininae ,Pan ,Pan troglodytes

Description:

The Common Chimpanzee is essentially a herbivore and eats leaves, berries, fruit, roots, tubercles, ferns and tree bark, but will also feed on insects. Its cranium is rounded due to the development of its brain. It also has well-pronounced mandibular prognathism as an adaptation to its diet. Its orbits are large and complete. The temporal muscles used to masticate and grind plant matter are attached to the superciliary arch above the eyes. Its dentition is bunodont, with low rounded cusps. Its teeth are well adapted to cutting, breaking up and grinding plant matter. It has 32 teeth, with the following dental formula: I 2/2, C 1/1, P 2/2, M 3/3.