Meanings
- uncountableThe chimpanzee species in its entirety.
He achieved great PR for chimpkind and even made the front cover of Life magazine.
2008, BBC Wildlife, volume 26, numbers 1-7, page 832 more examples
The one percent of difference between human and chimpkind, as it turns out, makes all the difference.
2007, Max Oelschlaeger, “Boundaries and Darwin: Bridging the Great Divide”, in Charles S. Brown, Ted Toadvine, editors, Nature's Edge: Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 7It'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.
2014 July 1, Steve Rose, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review”, in The Guardian
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