: an anthropoid ape (Pan troglodytes) of equatorial Africa that is smaller and more arboreal than the gorilla compare bonobo
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In 2013, researchers from Lund University repeatedly yawned at 33 chimpanzees in cages and found that the chimps consistently yawned back.—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 June 2025 The structure of their hands and wrists is more common with modern human dexterity than that of chimpanzees and gorillas.—Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2025 This suggests the origin of our own musicality may have originated in a last common ancestor with chimpanzees.—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025 However, studies like these are increasingly hard to carry out, researchers say, as wild chimpanzee populations are depleted by hunting, the pet trade, and habitat destruction.—Jon Hamilton, NPR, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for chimpanzee
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