Chimpanzee
noun
A type of great ape that is closer to humans in terms of genetic makeup and behavior. It lives in forests and savannas in Africa.
The chimpanzee is known for its ability to use tools for foraging food.
Often appears as...
- african chimpanzee
- young chimpanzee
noun
A type of great ape that is closer to humans in terms of genetic makeup and behavior. It lives in forests and savannas in Africa.
The chimpanzee is known for its ability to use tools for foraging food.
Often appears as...
- african chimpanzee
- young chimpanzee
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Pro Tip 1/3Natural Habitat
Chimpanzees are found in the wild, often in jungles or woodland areas, not urban settings.
The documentary showed chimpanzees swinging from tree to tree in the jungle.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Pets
Chimpanzees are wild animals, thus referencing them as pets or domesticated animals is incorrect.
Despite their intelligence, keeping a chimpanzee as a pet is inappropriate and dangerous.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Creatures
When describing chimpanzees, it's insightful to mention their complex emotions and social bonds.
The young chimpanzee showed distress when it lost sight of its mother.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Habitat
Chimpanzees are found in the wild, often in jungles or woodland areas, not urban settings.
The documentary showed chimpanzees swinging from tree to tree in the jungle.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Pets
Chimpanzees are wild animals, thus referencing them as pets or domesticated animals is incorrect.
Despite their intelligence, keeping a chimpanzee as a pet is inappropriate and dangerous.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Creatures
When describing chimpanzees, it's insightful to mention their complex emotions and social bonds.
The young chimpanzee showed distress when it lost sight of its mother.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Habitat
Chimpanzees are found in the wild, often in jungles or woodland areas, not urban settings.
The documentary showed chimpanzees swinging from tree to tree in the jungle.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Pets
Chimpanzees are wild animals, thus referencing them as pets or domesticated animals is incorrect.
Despite their intelligence, keeping a chimpanzee as a pet is inappropriate and dangerous.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Creatures
When describing chimpanzees, it's insightful to mention their complex emotions and social bonds.
The young chimpanzee showed distress when it lost sight of its mother.
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Chimps have feelings and...
have studied chimpanzees intensively for decades. We know the extraordinary cognitive capabilities that they have, and they also resemble the kind that human beings have. And so we chose chimpanzees, and we began to then canvass the world to find the experts in chimpanzee cognition.
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Making wildlife a part...
I never outgrew that it actually got to the point where I started spending all my holiday and all my salary seeking out personal experiences with grizzly bears or chimpanzees or penguins but it got to a point where it all started to feel very selfish these experiences were only
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Thought-provoking...
gems don't need language in their environment because they have a very complex communicative system based on non-verbal communication by observing many different groups of chimpanzees catcher hopes to compile the world's first chimp dictionary
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Why do we have hair in...
Keeping cool became increasingly important. Eventually, they developed more sweat glands, which helped them lose heat by evaporating moisture through the skin. In fact, humans have 10 times more sweat glands than chimpanzees, for instance.
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The Doctor Who Can...
apes over the next few years whether it's with this pandemic or a future one but then on the flip side i know i know that the work that we are doing it might not protect all chimps but i can at least help some of them and i
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Can Octopuses Recognise...
signs of personality in different cephalopods and typically find that there are individual personalities bringing the octopus into an area of study normally reserved for animals like chimpanzees and dolphins
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How to Speak Chimpanzee...
They even perform actions that seem all too human. But while chimps across the world only have a limited repertoire of vocalizations, they constantly invent and share new gestures with each other.
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What happens when our...
on what we humans do than on what the chimpanzees do themselves. Once there is superintelligence, the fate of humanity may depend on what the superintelligence does. Think about
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Human Origins 101 PIPE...
unprecedented rise. The story of humanity's evolution began about seven million years ago when the human lineage broke away from that of chimpanzees.
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Chimpanzee Cannibalism PIPE...
An unfamiliar chimp call raises the tension. It's an uncertain time. The size of the rival group is as yet unknown.
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Chimps have feelings and...
have studied chimpanzees intensively for decades. We know the extraordinary cognitive capabilities that they have, and they also resemble the kind that human beings have. And so we chose chimpanzees, and we began to then canvass the world to find the experts in chimpanzee cognition.
Video examples
Making wildlife a part...
I never outgrew that it actually got to the point where I started spending all my holiday and all my salary seeking out personal experiences with grizzly bears or chimpanzees or penguins but it got to a point where it all started to feel very selfish these experiences were only
Video examples
Thought-provoking...
gems don't need language in their environment because they have a very complex communicative system based on non-verbal communication by observing many different groups of chimpanzees catcher hopes to compile the world's first chimp dictionary
Video examples
Why do we have hair in...
Keeping cool became increasingly important. Eventually, they developed more sweat glands, which helped them lose heat by evaporating moisture through the skin. In fact, humans have 10 times more sweat glands than chimpanzees, for instance.
Video examples
The Doctor Who Can...
apes over the next few years whether it's with this pandemic or a future one but then on the flip side i know i know that the work that we are doing it might not protect all chimps but i can at least help some of them and i
Video examples
Can Octopuses Recognise...
signs of personality in different cephalopods and typically find that there are individual personalities bringing the octopus into an area of study normally reserved for animals like chimpanzees and dolphins
Video examples
How to Speak Chimpanzee...
They even perform actions that seem all too human. But while chimps across the world only have a limited repertoire of vocalizations, they constantly invent and share new gestures with each other.
Video examples
What happens when our...
on what we humans do than on what the chimpanzees do themselves. Once there is superintelligence, the fate of humanity may depend on what the superintelligence does. Think about
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Human Origins 101 PIPE...
unprecedented rise. The story of humanity's evolution began about seven million years ago when the human lineage broke away from that of chimpanzees.
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Chimpanzee Cannibalism PIPE...
An unfamiliar chimp call raises the tension. It's an uncertain time. The size of the rival group is as yet unknown.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.
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Frans de Waal
Dutch Scientist
Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they tell us about the possibility of having peaceful relationships.
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Louise Leakey
Kenyan Scientist
It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.
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Nathan Wolfe
American Scientist
We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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Elayne Boosler
American Comedian
I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs, or six cats, or will let me make a difference to the one woman saving chimps in Cameroon.
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Michio Kaku
American Physicist
In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.
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Jane Goodall
English Scientist
It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.
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Alice Roberts
English Scientist
In fact, humans have less variation genetically than chimpanzees.
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Pat Conroy
American Writer
I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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Russell Banks
American Author
Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.
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Frans de Waal
Dutch Scientist
Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they tell us about the possibility of having peaceful relationships.
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Louise Leakey
Kenyan Scientist
It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.
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Nathan Wolfe
American Scientist
We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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Elayne Boosler
American Comedian
I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs, or six cats, or will let me make a difference to the one woman saving chimps in Cameroon.
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Michio Kaku
American Physicist
In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.
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Jane Goodall
English Scientist
It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.
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Alice Roberts
English Scientist
In fact, humans have less variation genetically than chimpanzees.
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Pat Conroy
American Writer
I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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Russell Banks
American Author
Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.
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