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DISTRIBUTION

The Bonobo has a discontinuous distribution in the central Zaïre basin, south of the Zaïre River. It occurs between the Zaïre River, the Lomami River, the Kasai/Sankuru Rivers, and the Lake Tumba / Lac Ndombe region, although it appears to be absent from the central part of this area between the Momboyo River and the Busira River.3 It had been thought that the species' range was continuous within this large forest zone, totalling approximately 350,000 km2, but field observations since the 1970s indicate that it is absent or rare in many areas and common only in a few scattered localities.3 Studies in the last decade have confirmed viable populations only near the towns of Befale, Djolu, Bokungu and Ikela, and in a 3,000 km2 area between the Yekokora and Lomako Rivers.3

Range States: Congo?; Zaïre.



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