chimpanzee
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During a tree climb, a chimpanzee ankle can flex upward by about 45 degrees.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
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
We now know they use different objects for different purposes wherever they have been studied in Africa, so we can talk about chimpanzee cultures.
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
"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
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 information can help us determine what chimpanzees are trying to communicate.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
An American woman in it'd taught chimpanzees to speak in sign language.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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Africa - Introductory
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