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chimpanzee

/chim-pan-zee, chim-pan-zee/US // ˌtʃɪm pænˈzi, tʃɪmˈpæn zi //UK // (ˌtʃɪmpænˈziː) //

黑猩猩,猩猩,熊猫

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  1. 1
    • : 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 and the bonobo, are greatly reduced in number and considered endangered.

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Examples

  • She explains grief behavior expressed by chimpanzees as due to “survival instincts” — and grieving behavior generally as “a survival instinct.”

  • We see this in many nonhumans as well, such as in chimpanzees, where females avoid mating with kin by likewise transferring between communities.

  • Johnson & Johnson is testing a similar vaccine that uses a human adenovirus, rather than a chimpanzee one, as the delivery mechanism to carry a gene that codes for making part of the spike protein.

  • Chimpanzees will stake out their own territory and male chimpanzees will go out in bands to patrol that territory.

  • The AstraZeneca vaccine uses a method developed by researchers at Oxford’s Jenner Institute that uses a chimpanzee virus that has been genetically modified to produce the coronavirus spike protein.

  • As a friend once told me, “A chimpanzee could have made money in L.A. real estate—and many did.”

  • The author of Guns, Germs, and Steel is out with an adaptation for young people of The Third Chimpanzee.

  • Tell me about your earliest personal interaction with a chimpanzee.

  • On Wednesday, the collection of pictures by Mikki (pictured above), a chimpanzee, reeled in roughly $75,000 at Sotheby's.

  • He clung to me like a chimpanzee baby with all four of his weakened limbs.

  • Again, we have the fact that man possesses normally only twelve ribs, one less than is found in the gorilla and the chimpanzee.

  • It is shortest in the chimpanzee, somewhat longer in the gorilla, still longer in the orang, and remarkably long in the gibbon.

  • The chief examples of anthropoid intelligence are told of the chimpanzee, which has been most frequently kept in captivity.

  • This species, apparently most nearly allied to the chimpanzee, was taller than any existing ape.

  • It would take an awful lot of explaining to make him understand the difference between, say, a chimpanzee and a man.