What exactly is a "chimp-like ape"? A chimp or an ape or something else?
I mean a species of ape that is morphologically similar to a chimp: an ape such that if a specimen were found alive today, it might be taxonomically categorized as a third species of chimp.
I might have said, more simply, "chimp", but this traditionally leads to confusion (among creationists) between the ancient species of chimp and the modern species of chimp. So taking the word "chimp" to mean "modern chimp", I used the more accurate term "chimp-like ape" to refer to the putative last common ancestor shared by chimps and hominids.