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chimpanzee

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






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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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

Nelle especially enjoyed going for walks with a touchy chimpanzee named Patsy, who lived on the porch.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

"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

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

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

Our closest living relatives include chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari


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