chimpanzee
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Along the way, we recorded observations of chimpanzee nests, feeding signs, vocalizations and sightings.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
The vision was conceived by Jane Goodall, the late, famed chimpanzee expert, and Margarita Pagliai, who founded Seven Arrows and Little Dolphins Preschool in the Palisades.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
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
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
And because she was one of the first to come to camp, and came so often, I learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior from her and her family.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
Video recordings show wild western chimpanzees, usually adult males, throwing rocks at specific trees and repeatedly returning to these trees to perform the behavior.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
While throwing, the chimpanzees pant hoot — a loud, long-distance communicative signal — and sometimes repeatedly hit their hands and feet on the tree in a behavior called buttress drumming.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Human beings are chimpanzees, and are therefore pack animals, and the average IQ is 100, meaning half of all people have an IQ lower than 100.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
This carries on until the occasional, inevitable reckoning, when the same chimpanzees all panic and try to sell at the same time.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Early the next morning I set out to search for chimpanzees.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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