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chimpanzee

[chim-pan-zee, chim-pan-zee] / ˌtʃɪm pænˈzi, tʃɪmˈpæn zi /






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The Marmot Project, which has been running for more than 60 years, is the second-longest study of individually identified mammals in the world, after Jane Goodall's chimpanzee study in Tanzania.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 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

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

"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

Researchers from The Ohio State University studied wild sooty mangabey monkeys, whose feet do not have the same highly flexible ankles found in chimpanzees.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 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

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

Would I ever get to study the chimpanzees?

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall




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