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chimpanzees

  • plural
    of chimpanzee.
    chimpanzee
    noun
    a very social great ape of sub-Saharan Africa, belonging to the genus Pan and having a brown-to-black coat, a relatively hairless face with a rounded muzzle, prominent ears, and hands adapted for knuckle-walking, and noted for its intelligence and humanlike behavior: both species, the common chimpanzee (P. troglodytes ) and the bonobo (P. paniscus ), are greatly reduced in number and considered endangered.

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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 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

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

So we built another house, down on the beach where the chimpanzees only sometimes roamed.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall