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Now, new research says the practices are not only effective at saving human lives, but chimp lives as well.—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 6 June 2025 Each chimp was exposed to the robot displaying one of the three expressions during separate 15-minute sessions.—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 June 2025 Scientists analyzed recordings of three groups of chimpanzees living in the Ivory Coast and found that chimps can combine their hoots, grunts and calls in a similar way to how humans use idioms or change the order of words to build new phrases.—Evan Bush, NBC news, 11 May 2025 This hi-tech vehicle and mobile lab was piloted by a trio of young scientists and a talking chimp who scoured the wastelands of a future Earth looking for other survivors after a new Dark Ages had fallen due to extreme pollution and endless wars.—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 1 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for chimp
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