How to Use chimpanzee in a Sentence

chimpanzee

noun

• To me, this suggests that chimpanzees are aware of how their signals come across.
  — Frans De Waal, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2019
• Humans are not alone in being much more peaceful on the whole than chimpanzees.
  — John Hawks, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
• This is the first time than any chimpanzee has been documented eating any kind of reptile.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 23 May 2019
• The United States launched a chimpanzee named Ham into space.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• King is also credited with proving that humans and chimpanzees share 99 percent of the same genes.
  — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2019
• The Dallas Zoo announced the death of their oldest male chimpanzee on Tuesday.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 June 2019
• Paige Powell’s first job was teaching chimpanzees sign language at what is now the Oregon Zoo.
  — Lane Florsheim, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2019
• Previous studies have shown that female dogs (as well as rats and chimpanzees) are more emotionally responsive than males.
  — Bronwyn Orr, Quartz, 9 June 2019
• No random chimpanzee could stumble across a crowd of unfamiliar chimps without reacting in fear or setting off a killing frenzy.
  — Mark W. Moffett, WSJ, 10 May 2019
• Pogo is a talking chimpanzee who is also Sir Hargreeves' closest confidant.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 26 Feb. 2019
• No other species points, Novack explained, not even chimpanzees or apes, according to most reports, unless they are raised by people.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
• Goodall’s research on chimpanzees helped revolutionized how the world viewed primates and humanity.
  — The Arizona Republic, 13 July 2024
• The difference is reactive aggression—extremely high in chimpanzees, low in humans.
  — John Hawks, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
• Treks usually last two to four hours with the Uganda Wildlife Authority, depending on where and when the chimpanzees are found.
  — Kate Lewis, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
• Even rarer are those that destroy traps, limited among vertebrates to two groups of chimpanzees and mountain gorillas that disassemble poachers’ snares.
  — Jake Buehler, Science | AAAS, 7 June 2019
• The chimpanzee is grieving the death of a loved one in her own way.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
• For the past decade, the focus has been on chimpanzees.
  — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 5 Dec. 2019
• The question that Woodruff and Premack asked was whether a chimpanzee could do the same.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
• When a chimpanzee walks on two legs, the wide set of its hips keeps its legs held apart.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2021
• That’s because the fossil showed a skull more akin to a chimpanzee.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 July 2022
• If so, then why does a bloody chimpanzee named Gordy still haunt my dreams?
  — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• Worse than the chimpanzee who bit his owner’s face off.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• But Lucy stood on two feet and had a small brain, not much larger than that of a chimpanzee.
  — Denise Su, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2024
• Like Akira, the best dancer in the chimpanzee study, his brain seems wired for music.
  — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2020
• Montessa, a 46-year-old chimpanzee, has been through a lot.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020
• First, one of the characters, a chimpanzee named Dave, is deaf.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Or a crow, a dog, a chimpanzee, an octopus, or any of the other smart ones.
  — Adam Morganstern, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2023
• Dozens of chimpanzees emerged from the brush, hairy arms extended.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
• The fight left a second chimpanzee, named Qafzeh, with injuries.
  — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 9 July 2024
• But not just any chimpanzee; inside the crate is an adorable baby Pogo.
  — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024