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shares 98% of your DNA and could absolutely destroy you in arm wrestling
means A highly intelligent great ape native to the forests and savannas of central and West Africa, known for tool use, complex social lives, and being one of humanity's closest living relatives.
from From a Bantu language of the Congo region — likely Tshiluba 'kivili-chimpenze,' roughly 'mockman' or 'ape,' which entered European languages in the 18th century. English picked it up via French, and it has carried that African root ever since.
- strength
- roughly 1.5 times stronger than humans pound for pound
- toolmaker
- strips twigs to fish termites from mounds
- warfare
- wages organized lethal raids on rival groups
- memory
- beats humans at rapid number-recall tests
- medicine
- eats specific leaves to purge intestinal parasites
washoe — first chimpanzee taught sign language, learned 250+ signs at central washington university in the 1960s-70s
jane goodall's david greybeard — first wild chimpanzee to accept human contact in gombe stream national park, tanzania, 1960
nim chimpsky — chimpanzee raised like human child and taught sign language at columbia university, 1973-1977