Gorilla gorilla (Savage and Wyman, 1847)
Distribution: SE Nigeria, Cameroon, Rio Muni (Equatorial Guinea), Congo Republic, SW Central African Republic, Gabon, N and E Zaire, SW Uganda, N Rwanda.
Status: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Endangered as G.g. berengei and G. g. graueri, otherwise Vulnerable.
File: JPEG; Photo: Tim Knight; Location: Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle

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Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758
Distribution: Cosmopolitan.
Status: CITES - Appendix II as Order Primates; absolutely not endangered.
File: GIF; Photo of Tim Knight (Primate Gallery Webmaster) by Clay Eals

Pan paniscus Schwartz, 1929
Distribution: Congo Basin of Zaire, on south side of Congo River.
Status: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Vulnerable.
File: JPEG; Photo: courtesy of Emmanuelle Grundmann

Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775)
Distribution: S Cameroon; Gabon; S Congo Republic; Uganda; W Tanzania; E and N Zaire; W Central African Republic; Guinea to W Nigeria, south to Congo River in W Africa.
Status: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered in the wild, Threatened in captivity; IUCN - Endangered as P. t. verus, otherwise Vulnerable.
File: JPEG; Photo: Tim Knight; Location: San Francisco Zoo

Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760)
Distribution: Sumatra, NW of Lake Toba (Indonesia); discontinuous in Borneo.
Status: CITES - Appendix I as P. p. abelii and P. p. pygmaeus, otherwise Appendix II; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Endangered
File: JPEG; Photo: courtesy of Emmanuelle Grundmann
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