That is effectively what humans have been doing to our closest relatives -chimps .

实际上是人类一直也是这么对待近亲黑猩猩的。

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The great apes are our closest relatives.

类人猿是和我们最最亲密的亲戚。

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Its closest relatives are Turkish and Turkmen.

与它最接近的是土耳其语和土库曼语。

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Residents in the villages closest to the attacks have fled their homes to stay with relatives and friends nearby.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

But what's unexpected about that is that our closest evolutionary relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas,don't do that.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

My closest relatives have gone about gaining their citizenship in a legal, proper and ethical manner.

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Gorillas are our closest relatives, after chimpanzees and bonobos, having diverged from our common ancestors 8 million years ago.

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He thinks their conditions are treatable and that, as our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, they deserve proper psychiatric care.

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