chimpanzee
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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
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
One chimpanzee with a typewriter could pound out the script for “Primate” in an hour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026
"When participants heard chimpanzee vocalizations, this response was clearly distinct from that triggered by bonobos or macaques."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 10, 2025
Remove a chimpanzee from its mother, and it will still play with its friends and chow down on whatever you put in front of it.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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
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
"Comparing bonobos and chimpanzees - our two closest relatives - offers fascinating insight into the evolutionary roots of social behaviour and how they, and we, manage tension, competition and cooperation," said Dr Jake Brooker.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The researchers say the use of touch to build trust and cooperation may date back at least seven million years, before humans, chimpanzees and bonobos split from a common ancestor.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
It was a whole year from the time when I left Africa to the time when I actually arrived among the chimpanzees.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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Africa - Introductory
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