chimpanzee
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Staff used a drone to deliver food to Kaleb, a 38-year-old chimpanzee cut off from access.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 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
In captivity, at least one chimpanzee appeared to drag imaginary blocks across the floor after playing with real wooden ones.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 10, 2026
But for Derek, the chimpanzee research might have ended then.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
Behind guarded gates resembling an Indian maharajah's palace are hundreds of elephants and big cats, giraffes grazing in a mock savannah, and chimpanzees and orangutans swinging from ropes.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
While Homo erectus was developing a larger brain and smaller molar teeth, possibly as a result of eating more meat, P. robustus retained a brain only slightly larger than that of chimpanzees.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
"We are less intelligent than superintelligent AI. If you ask chimpanzees how humans could wipe them out, they probably wouldn't be able to give you all the right answers."
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
However, we still don’t know what accumulative stone throwing sites might mean to the chimpanzees themselves nor why they do it.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Actually I’m not even sure there are chimpanzees anywhere in the United States, except for zoos.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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