What is the maximal age a Bonobo reaches?
An adult Bonobo (Pan paniscus) usually gets as old as 48 years.
Bonobos are around 235 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 1.4 kg (3.08 lbs) and measure 80.8 cm (2′ 8″). As a member of the Hominidae family (genus: Pan), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 75.3 cm (2′ 6″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The bonobo (; Pan paniscus), also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee, is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan; the other being the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Although bonobos are not a subspecies of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), but rather a distinct species in their own right, both species are sometimes referred to collectively using the generalized term chimpanzees, or chimps. Taxonomically, the members of the chimpanzee/bonobo subtribe Panina (comprised entirely by the genus Pan) are collectively termed panins.The bonobo is distinguished by relatively long legs, pink lips, dark face, tail-tuft through adulthood, and parted long hair on its head. The bonobo is found in a 500,000 km2 (190,000 sq mi) area of the Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa. The species is omnivorous and inhabits primary and secondary forests, including seasonally inundated swamp forests. Because of political instability in the region and the timidity of bonobos, there has been relatively little field work done observing the species in its natural habitat.Along with the common chimpanzee, the bonobo is the closest extant relative to humans. As the two species are not proficient swimmers, the formation of the Congo River 1.5–2 million years ago possibly led to the speciation of the bonobo. Bonobos live south of the river, and thereby were separated from the ancestors of the common chimpanzee, which live north of the river. There are no concrete data on population numbers, but the estimate is between 29,500 and 50,000 individuals. The species is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List and is threatened by habitat destruction and human population growth and movement, though commercial poaching is the most prominent threat. Bonobos typically live 40 years in captivity; their lifespan in the wild is unknown, but it is almost certainly much shorter.
Animals of the same family as a Bonobo
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Hominidae):
- Bornean orangutan becoming 60 years old
- Western gorilla becoming 54 years old
- Chimpanzee becoming 60 years old
- Homo sapiens becoming 122.5 years old
- Sumatran orangutan growing to a mass of 39.7 kgs (87.52 lbs)
- Eastern gorilla growing to a mass of 149.33 kgs (329.22 lbs)
Animals that reach the same age as Bonobo
With an average age of 48 years, Bonobo are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Lar gibbon usually reaching 40 years
- Colombian white-faced capuchin usually reaching 54.75 years
- Sloth bear usually reaching 40 years
- Black crested gibbon usually reaching 44.08 years
- Common bottlenose dolphin usually reaching 46 years
- Ringed seal usually reaching 46 years
- Bactrian camel usually reaching 40 years
- Yellow baboon usually reaching 45 years
- Pygmy hippopotamus usually reaching 43.75 years
- Caspian seal usually reaching 50 years
Animals with the same number of babies Bonobo
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Cave nectar bat
- Ribbon seal
- Naked-rumped pouched bat
- Siberian musk deer
- Mahogany glider
- South American tapir
- Asinus
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Wroughton’s free-tailed bat
- Desert rat-kangaroo
Weighting as much as Bonobo
A fully grown Bonobo reaches around 35.15 kg (77.48 lbs). So do these animals:
- Chamois weighting 33.11 kilos (72.99 lbs) on average
- Siberian roe deer weighting 41.19 kilos (90.81 lbs) on average
- Pampas deer weighting 34.55 kilos (76.17 lbs) on average
- Calamian deer weighting 39.66 kilos (87.44 lbs) on average
- Sheep weighting 37.47 kilos (82.61 lbs) on average
- Mongolian gazelle weighting 28.22 kilos (62.21 lbs) on average
- Springbok weighting 33.39 kilos (73.61 lbs) on average
- Striped hyena weighting 35.09 kilos (77.36 lbs) on average
- White-lipped peccary weighting 31.6 kilos (69.67 lbs) on average
- Himalayan goral weighting 28.75 kilos (63.38 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Bonobo
Those animals grow as big as a Bonobo:
- Chimpanzee with 79.6 cm (2′ 8″)
- Kirk’s dik-dik with 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
- North American porcupine with 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Assam macaque with 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Asian golden cat with 89 cm (3′ 0″)
- Pampas fox with 61.9 cm (2′ 1″)
- North American river otter with 68.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with 71.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Large Indian civet with 81.9 cm (2′ 9″)
- Fishing cat with 77.9 cm (2′ 7″)