chimpanzee
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The chimpanzees may have left the area, but you are lucky nonetheless, because you have stumbled upon evidence of a rare — and potentially cultural — chimpanzee behavior: accumulative stone throwing.
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
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
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While Homo erectus was developing a larger brain and smaller molar teeth, possibly as a result of eating more meat, P. robustus retained a brain only slightly larger than that of chimpanzees.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 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 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
We decided it would be best if I went back to England to learn all I could about chimpanzees while he tried to raise the money.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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