[
US
/ˈtʃɪmp/
]
[ UK /tʃˈɪmp/ ]
[ UK /tʃˈɪmp/ ]
NOUN
- intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests
How To Use chimp In A Sentence
- Moe is a 32 year old privately-owned chimp kept in a backyard in Los Angeles.
- This platform of existence, many millions of years old, continues today with the gorillas and chimpanzees. Times, Sunday Times
- Our nearest relatives, the chimps tend towards matrilinear, while patrilinear seems more prevalent in a majority of the different aboriginity groups in more modern times. Discovered: the basis of human civilization.
- Many behaviour patterns have been identified in the chimp colony.
- A vaccine of this kind has been shown to protect against hepatitis B virus infections in chimpanzees and recently also in humans. Physiology or Medicine 1976 - Press Release
- Likewise, if you told an ethologist that you found a new species of primate that is closely related to chimps, she would instantly know a tremendous amount about this animal and what it might be able to do. Bunny and a Book
- That means that, on the strict taxonomic level, chimps and gorillas are hominids.
- Chimpy: Listen, I know in my heart your rook was a threat. Your Right Hand Thief
- In the past year alone, numerous studies have highlighted our remarkable likeness not only to chimps, but to monkeys and apes of all kinds.
- If chimps and humans are both violent, they are likely to share a genetic legacy for violence with this ancestor.