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chimpanzee

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






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Unfortunately, chimpanzee habitat in Guinea-Bissau is threatened by extractive industries, particularly industrial mining.

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

There, she became the namesake of the Ai Project, a research programme into the "chimpanzee mind".

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

There is the case of the chimpanzee whose cage door was left unlocked and had swung open.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

"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

The Boé chimpanzees performing the behavior are unhabituated; they are not used to humans, meaning that we cannot observe individual chimpanzees on foot because they will run away.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

This information can help us determine what chimpanzees are trying to communicate.

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

There was a law which made it illegal to hunt and sell chimpanzees without a license.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall




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