| 词汇 | chimpanzee |
| 释义 | chimpanzee noun[ C ] uk /ˌtʃɪm.pænˈziː/ us /ˌtʃɪm.pænˈziː/(informalchimp, uk /tʃɪmp/ us /tʃɪmp/) a small, very intelligent African ape with black or brown fur黑猩猩 Martin Harvey/ Photodisc/GettyImages Humans, apes & monkeys anthropo- anthropoid ape baboon bonobo hominid hominin homo Homo sapiens human lemur loris macaque mandrill mankind ring-tailed lemur sapient silverback simian spider monkey While many other animals, such as chimpanzees and dolphins, live in groups and communicate, scientists don’t know for certain whether they can talk and share complicated ideas. Both chimpanzee and orang are markedly contrasted with the fierce and gloomy gorilla. He reminds us how close we are of kin to the frolicsome chimpanzee. Man's brain is more complicated than that of the higher apes—gorilla, orang, and chimpanzee—and it is relatively larger. The anatomical structure of man is closely similar to that of the anthropoid apes—the gorilla, the orang, the chimpanzee, and the gibbon. There is a long gamut between the bushy-tailed, almost squirrel-like marmosets and the big-brained chimpanzee. chimpanzee | American Dictionarychimpanzee noun[ C ] us/ˌtʃɪm·pænˈzi/(short formchimp, us/tʃɪmp/) an African ape (= animal related to monkeys) with black or brown fur Examples of chimpanzeechimpanzee Common characteristics of motor patterns were observed across the tasks between both infant chimpanzees and 1-year-old infants. As the chimpanzees decided which objects were to be named and shown, they also incorporated many aspects of the teacher's role into their own behavior. Particularly exciting are the new perspectives on early hominid language which have arisen from recent research on the linguistic competence of chimpanzee and bonobo. We may well ask whether such elaborate vertical cultural transmission could occur at all if females were dispersing from natal groups, as happens among chimpanzees. An additional suggestive observation is that the mirror system in chimpanzees corresponds to an area associated with language in humans. There is no more reason to invoke a human model than a chimpanzee model, or neither. But, it would fall far short of cross-fostering in which infant chimpanzees are maintained from birth under nearly human conditions. In each case further along in the spectrum, one more human gene is inserted while the corresponding chimpanzee gene is deleted, if necessary. With respect to faecal clumps that contained whole seeds, chimpanzees and gorillas passed 1.7 species of seed per defecation on average. This commentary heartily endorses that position with examples of methods and results found in sign language studies of cross-fostered chimpanzees. Unlike the chopped exhalations of human laughter, chimpanzee utterances have only one sound produced per inward and outward breath. In contrast to arboreal monkeys, a high percentage of chimpanzee and gorilla defecations contain seeds. Thus, when known, the learning of cultural behaviour can be very similar in humans and chimpanzees. The essential point is that humans share quite a similar memory process with chimpanzees. The characteristics of laughter in chimpanzees point to a critical constraint on the evolution of speech and language in the great apes. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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