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Chimpanzee

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In the News

Male chimpanzee		Female chimpanzee
Source:Turnbaugh, et al. (2002), p. 141

General Information

Common Chimp

Bonobo / Pygmy Chimpanzee

Chart: Primates -- Contemporary

Prehistoric and Contemporary Primates
(class handout .pdf)

Jane Goodall Research

chimpanzee-- Wikipedia

More Photos

In the News . . .

• All Hooting Aside: Did a Vocal Evolution Give Rise to Language? -- The New York Times (11 April 2022)
  
  
• Great Apes: Our Closest Animal Kingdom Relatives -- NATURE (42 min., 2021)
  
  
• In the Bonobo World, Female Camaraderie Prevails -- New York Times (10 September 2016)
  
  
• Bonobos Rival Chimps at the Art of Cracking Oil Palm Nuts -- Science News (05 September 2016)
  
  
• Chimpanzees Hold Secret to Ultimate Comfy Bed, Says Expert -- Guardian (21 June 2016)
  
  
• The young chimpanzees that play with dolls -- BBCearth (24 April 2016)
  
  
• Ancient chimpanzee ‘Adam’ Lived Over One Million Years Ago, Research Reveals -- ScienceDaily (25 February 2016)
  
  
• Kids, Wild Apes Tackle Tasks the Same Way -- Discovery News (23 February 2016)
  
  
• Social behavior shapes the chimpanzee pan-microbiome -- Science Advances (15 January 2016)
  
  
• Like Humans, Chimpanzees Trust Their Friends -- Science (14 January 2016)
  
  
• Bonobos Documented for First Time Using Ancient Pre-Agricultural Tools, Breaking Bones, and Using Spears as Attack Weapons -- ScienceDaily (30 November 2015)
  
  
• NIH to Retire All Research Chimpanzees -- Nature (18 November 2015)
  
  
• Chimps Found Caring for Disabled Infant -- Discovery News (11 November 2015)
  
  
• Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee? -- Guardian (08 November 2015)
  
  
• Meet the Chimps That Lawyers Argue Are People -- National Geographic News (08 October 2015 )
  
  
• A Moment That Changed Me – My Husband Fell in Love With a Bonobo -- Guardian (01 October 2015)
  
  
• Chimps and monkeys have entered the Stone Age -- BBC News (18 August 2015)
  
  
• Humans Have More Primitive Hands Than Chimpanzees -- Science (14 July 2015)
  
  
• Chimpanzees and Bonobos Differ in Intrinsic Motivation for Tool Use -- Nature Scientific Reports (16 June 2015)
  
  
• Jane Goodall hails 'awakening' as US labels all chimpanzees endangered -- Guardian (12 June 2015)
  
  
• Chimpanzees Deemed Endangered by U.S.—What's It Mean? -- National Geographic News (12 June 2015)
  
  
• Like Us, Chimps Go Bananas For Booze -- NPR (10 June 2015)
  
  
• Chimpanzees in west Africa observed indulging in habitual drinking -- Guardian (09 June 2015)
  
  
• Chimpanzees Will Travel for Preferred Foods, Innovate Solutions -- EurekAlert (17 March 2015)
  
  
• If Apes Go Extinct, So Could Entire Forests -- Scientific American (11 March 2015)
  
  
• Ebola Has Crushed Gorilla and Chimp Populations -- Discovery News (22 January 2015)
  
  
• Chimps 'Talk' About Their Favorite Foods, Trees -- Discovery News (19 January 2015)
  
  
• Chimpanzees Don’t Just Use Tools — They Have Favorite Tools -- Washington Post (15 October 2014)
  
  
• Sharing: Chimp study reveals origins of human fair play -- BBC News (14 January 2013)
  
  
• The Great Chimp Tech Boom -- Discovery News (24 October 2012)
  
  
• Iowa Bonobo Sanctuary Mired in Controversy -- Science (18 September 2012)
  
  
• Deadly Human Bacteria Now Infects Chimps -- LiveScience (21 August 2012)
  
  
• Bonobo Stone Tools as Competent as Ancient Human? -- LiveScience (20 August 2012)
  
  
• Generation Gaps Suggest Ancient Human-Ape Split -- Science (13 August 2012)
  
  
• Why Do Chimps Attack? -- Discovery News (02 July 2012)
  
  
• Chimp Beds Hint How Early Humans Ditched Tree-Sleeping -- New Scientist (12 April 2012)
  
  
• Bonobos Are Caring Because They Are Led by Females -- New Scientist (08 March 2012)
  
  
• Female Bonobos 'Advertise' Homosexual Bonds -- BBC News (01 March 2012)
  
  
• Ape Versus Machine: Do Primates Enjoy Computer Games? -- BBC News (08 February 2012)
  
  
• Bonobos' Unusual Success Story -- EurekAlert (23 January 2012)
  
  
• Chimpanzees Self-Medicate With Food -- Discovery News (29 November 2011)
  • Why Chimps Eat Dead Wood and Other Plants -- Discovery News (29 November 2011)
    
    
• Chimps Play Like Humans: Playful Behavior of Young Chimps Develops Like That of Children -- EurekAlert (16 November 2011)
  
  
• Human-Chimp Evolutionary Divergence: Methylation and Gene Sequence Co-Evolved, Study Suggests -- ScienceDaily (15 September 2011)
  
  
• Chimpanzee Research an Endangered Species as Experts Debate Usefulness, Ethics -- Washington Post (13 August 2011)
  
  
• Like humans, chimps are born with immature forebrains -- EurekAlert (11 August 2008)
  
  
• Smile! Face Recognition IDs Chimps from Photos -- LiveScience (12 August 2011)
  
  
• Project Nim In Pictures -- Guardian (08 August 2011)
  
  
• Chimps vs. Humans: How Are We Different? -- LiveScience (29 July 2011)
  
  
• Nim Chimpsky: the chimp they tried to turn into a human -- Guardian (24 July 2011)
  
  
• Chimp Nest Architecture Has Lasting Foundations -- New Scientist (22 July 2011)
  
  
• What We Don't See When We See Chimps -- Discovery News (22 July 2011)
  
  
• Chimpanzees Dogged By Image Problem -- LiveScience (13 July 2011)
  
  
• Chimps and Dolphins Share Cultural Similarities -- Wired (05 July 2011)
  
  
• Project Nim: A chimp raised like a human -- New Scientist (04 July 2011)
  
  
• Chimp Recognises Synthetic Speech -- BBC News (01 July 2011)
  
  
• Chimp's Premeditated Assault Caught on Camera -- NewScientist (24 June 2011)
  
  
• Going Ape: Ultraviolence and Our Primate Cousins -- NewScientist (06 June 2011)
  
  
• Chimpanzees' 66 Gestures Revealed -- BBCNews (05 May 2011)
  
  
• Chimpanzees Give Birth 'Like Humans' -- BBCNews (20 April 2011)
  
  
• Bonobos Make Love - Chimps Make War [video] -- LiveScience (08 March 2011)
  
  
• Sundance festival documentary tells story of chimp raised as baby -- BBCNews (26 January 2011)
  
  
• Project Nim: We Are the Real Chumps in This Chimp's Story -- Guardian (21 January 2011)

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General

chimpanzee -- Wikipedia

search chimpanzee on JSTOR

• American Society of Primatologists
  
  
• Asociación Primatológica Española (A.P.E.)
  
  
• Atlas of the Brain
  
  
  • Thalamus and Hypothalamus
    
    
• Bonobos Make Love - Chimps Make War [video] -- LiveScience (08 March 2011)
  
  
• Bonobos Opt to Share Their Food -- BBC News (08 March 2010)
  
  
• "Chimpanzee Cultures" -- Andrew Whiten (Nature, 399, 682-685, 1999)
  • interactive database
    
    
• Chimp Questions -- UM Jane Goodall Institute
  
  
• Chimpanzee and Great Ape Language Resources on the Internet -- William Beeman
  
  
• Chimpanzees Develop Specialized Tool Kits to Catch Army Ants -- EurekAlert (04 September 2009)
  
  
• Chimp Gangs Kill to Expand Territory -- National Geographic News (21 June 2009)
  
  
• Chimp "Girls" Play With "Dolls" Too�First Wild Evidence -- National Geographic News (20 December 2010)
  
  
• Chimps Are Intelligent Enough to Appreciate a Full Pint -- BBC News (23 February 2010)
  
  
• Chimps Born to Appreciate Music -- BBC News (30 July 2009)
  
  
• Chimps Display Humanlike Good Will -- National Geographic News (19 October 2009)
  
  
• Chimps 'feel death like humans' -- BBC News (26 April 2010)
  
  
• Chimps Happy to Help - You Just Have to Ask -- New Scientist (13 October 2009
  
  
• Chimps Help Scientists Unravel DNA -- Telegraph (07 September 2009)
  
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• Chimps with Everything: Jane Goodall's 50 Years in the Jungle -- Guardian (27 June 2010)
  
  
• Chimp World (for kids) -- Cristian Redferne
  
  
• Court Claim: Chimps Are People, Too LiveScience (5/29/08)
  
  
  • Court to Decide If Chimps Are People, Too MSNBC (5/29/08)
    
    
• Defining Human Uniqueness In 'Almost Chimpanzee' -- NPR (24 September 2010)
  
  
• Discover Chimpanzees
  
  
• Human-Chimp Interbreeding Challenged -- Nature (28 August 2009)
  
  
• Humans Have a Lot to Learn From Bonobos, Scientist Says -- Live Science (23 April 2010)
  
  
• Infant Chimps 'Better Behaved' Than Human Counterparts -- Telegraph (08 September 2009)
  
  
• Language in Apes -- Dave Switzer
  
  
• Living Links -- Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center
  
  
• New Evidence Of Culture In Wild Chimpanzees -- ScienceDaily (22 October 2009)
  
  
• [Out of Order] Foot Graphic -- Hominid Palaeontology Research Group
  
  
• [Out of Order] Hip Graphic -- Hominid Palaeontology Research Group
  
  
• Pan Africa News (newsletter)
  
  
• Primate Gallery
  
  
• Study Finds Chimps Die From Simian AIDS, Dispelling Widely Held Belief -- New York Times (22 July 2009)
  
  
• What Chimps Can Teach Us -- MSNBC (10 October 2009)
  
  
• What Kind of Man Are You – Chimpanzee or Bonobo? -- Telegraph (28 June 2010)
  
  
• Why Chimps Are Stronger Than Humans -- LiveScience (20 March 2009)
  
  
• Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center
  
  
• The World of Chimpanzees -- M. Nakamura

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Common Chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes

chimpanzee -- Wikipedia

search chimpanzee on JSTOR

• Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D -- Phillip Walker and Ed Hagen
• Chimpanzee -- The Stone Way
• A-1 Chimpanzee Links -- planetwildlife
• Chimp Hunting -- University of South Carolina Chronicle
• The ChimpanZoo -- Dr. Virginia Landau
• Living Links -- Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center
• Primatology -- University of Barcelona, Spain
• World of Chimpanzees -- Kyoto University, Japan

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Bonobo / Pygmy Chimpanzee
Pan paniscus

bonobo -- Wikipedia

search bonoboon JSTOR

• The Last Great Ape -- Nova
• The Bonobo Protection Fund
• Bonobos -- Great Ape Trust of Iowa
  • Meet our Bonobos
• Bonobos 'Chat' About Good Foods -- BBC News (28 April 2011)
• Bonobos: The Left-Bank Chimpanzees -- William H. Calvin
• Bonobo Sex and Society -- Frans B. M. de Waal
• Bonobos -- Yahoo
• Bonobo Society: Amicable, Amorous and Run by Females -- Natalie Angier
• Bonobos Opt to Share Their Food -- BBC News (08 March 2010)
• Chimpanzee and Bonobo Links
• Kanzi
• Lab chimp speaks his own language -- NewScientist.com
• Language Research Center -- Georgia State University
• Language Research Center -- Primate Info Net
• Living Links -- Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center
• "Loving" Bonobos Seen Killing, Eating Other Primates -- National Geogeraphic (13 september 2008)
• Primate Journals and Newsletters -- Primate Info Net
• Primate use of language -- The Animal Cognition Web Site, Robert Cook
• Save The Bonobo's!

chimpanzee -- Wikipedia

search chimpanzee on JSTOR

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Primates -- Contemporary Prehistoric and Contemporary Primates (class handout .pdf)
Prosimians "Pre-Monkeys"
Monkeys	New World Monkeys
	Old World Monkeys	Macaques
		Baboons
Apes	"Lesser Apes"	Gibbons
	Great Apes	Orangutans
		Gorillas
		Chimpanzees
			Common Chimps
			Bonobos (aka "Pygmy Chimps")
Humans

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