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Chimpanzee vs Gibbon - What's the difference?

chimpanzee | gibbon |

As nouns the difference between chimpanzee and gibbon

is that chimpanzee is a great ape of the genus pan , native to africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans while gibbon is gibbon.

chimpanzee

English

(wikipedia chimpanzee)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A great ape of the genus Pan , native to Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans.

    • Synonyms

    * chimp

    Holonyms

    * (individual chimpanzee) chimpkind

    gibbon

    English

    (wikipedia gibbon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.