Example sentences for: chimps

How can you use “chimps” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As the primatologist Frans de Waal has observed, male chimps "seem to live in a hierarchical world with replaceable coalition partners and a single permanent goal: power."

  • Robert Wright replies: Anyone who doubts that male chimpanzees spend lots of time fighting over females should read Frans de Waal's book Chimpanzee Politics . Though the chimp colony de Waal studied was not in a purely natural setting, as were the chimps at Gombe studied by Jane Goodall, de Waal, for that very reason, got a clearer look at daily life within a colony than Goodall did.

  • They say that a 15 million-year-old fossil of an African ape provides new evidence of a common ancestor of gorillas, chimps, and humans.

  • “Importantly, when we go back into tissue with probes for these gene products, in some cases there are remarkably different spatial patterns of expression in humans, chimps, and macaques”, notes Preuss.

  • The old man raised the bottle to his lips and we watched as the chimps scurried silently, one behind the other, back into the sodden forest.


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