chimpanzee
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If you compare the smartest nonhuman animal, the chimpanzee, to what Mr. Lefebvre regards as the smartest bird, the New Caledonian crow, chimps emerge on top.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
After the split between human and chimpanzee lineages around 7 million years ago, early human ancestors followed a complex evolutionary path that eventually led to the emergence of Homo sapiens roughly 300,000 years ago.
From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026
Ai, a female chimpanzee famous for her cognitive skills has died at 49, according to the Japanese institute where she lived.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026
One chimpanzee with a typewriter could pound out the script for “Primate” in an hour.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026
That was the first wild chimpanzee infant that I ever saw close up, nearly four years after I had begun my research.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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Africa - Introductory
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