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The skeletal remains of a wild juvenile chimpanzee,Pan troglodytes verus, of known chronological age are measured and found to be smaller than laboratory born and fed juveniles of the same age. Other wild born immature skeletal materials of all the three subspecies ofPan troglodytes, including both known and estimated chronological ages, are also smaller than laboratory born chimpanzees when comparisons are made on corresponding age groups. Differences between wild and laboratory born chimpanzees are larger in the limb bones than in the cranium. Limb bones of laboratory individuals grow earlier than those of wild ones regardless of subspecies. Small limb bone size of wild chimpanzees is discussed in terms of life processes.
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Kimura, T., Hamada, Y. Growth of wild and laboratory born chimpanzees. Primates 37, 237–251 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02381856
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