chimpkind

chimpkind

English

Etymology

chimp +‎ -kind

Noun

chimpkind (uncountable)

1. The chimpanzee species in its entirety.
   • 2007, Max Oelschlaeger, "Boundaries and Darwin: Bridging the Great Divide", in Nature's Edge: Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice (eds. Charles S. Brown & Ted Toadvine), State University of New York Press (2007), →ISBN, page 7:

     The one percent of difference between human and chimpkind, as it turns out, makes all the difference.

   • 2008, BBC Wildlife, Volume 26, Issues 1-7, page 83:

     He achieved great PR for chimpkind and even made the front cover of Life magazine.

   • 2014, Steve Rose, "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review", The Guardian, 1 July 2014:

     It's another seamless motion-capture performance by Andy Serkis (though to me Caesar looks more like chimpkind's answer to Sean Bean) and the film's biggest weakness is that homo sapiens offers little to rival it.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:chimpkind.