| 单词 | chimpanzee |
| 释义 | chimpanzee noun[C] uk/ˌtʃɪm.pænˈziː/us/ˌtʃɪm.pænˈziː/(informalchimp,uk/tʃɪmp/us/tʃɪmp/)asmall, veryintelligentAfricanapewithblackorbrownfur 黑猩猩 Martin Harvey/ Photodisc/GettyImages Humans, apes & monkeys
chimpanzee| American Dictionarychimpanzee noun[C] us/ˌtʃɪm·pænˈzi/(short formchimp,us/tʃɪmp/)anAfricanape(=animalrelatedtomonkeys)withblackorbrownfur Examplesofchimpanzeechimpanzee Common characteristics of motor patterns were observed across the tasks between both infant chimpanzees and 1-year-old infants. From theCambridge English Corpus 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. From theCambridge English Corpus Particularly exciting are the new perspectives on early hominid language which have arisen from recent research on the linguistic competence ofchimpanzeeand bonobo. From theCambridge English Corpus 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. From theCambridge English Corpus An additional suggestive observation is that the mirror system in chimpanzees corresponds to an area associated with language in humans. From theCambridge English Corpus There is no more reason to invoke a human model than achimpanzeemodel, or neither. From theCambridge English Corpus But, it would fall far short of cross-fostering in which infant chimpanzees are maintained from birth under nearly human conditions. From theCambridge English Corpus In each case further along in the spectrum, one more human gene is inserted while the correspondingchimpanzeegene is deleted, if necessary. From theCambridge English Corpus With respect to faecal clumps that contained whole seeds, chimpanzees and gorillas passed 1.7 species of seed per defecation on average. From theCambridge English Corpus This commentary heartily endorses that position with examples of methods and results found in sign language studies of cross-fostered chimpanzees. From theCambridge English Corpus Unlike the chopped exhalations of human laughter,chimpanzeeutterances have only one sound produced per inward and outward breath. From theCambridge English Corpus In contrast to arboreal monkeys, a high percentage ofchimpanzeeand gorilla defecations contain seeds. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, when known, the learning of cultural behaviour can be very similar in humans and chimpanzees. From theCambridge English Corpus The essential point is that humans share quite a similar memory process with chimpanzees. From theCambridge English Corpus The characteristics of laughter in chimpanzees point to a critical constraint on the evolution of speech and language in the great apes. From theCambridge English Corpus 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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