Dogs are the only mammals that will actually stare and look into a human’s eyes. — Jerry O'Connell Copy Share Image
It's harder to kill off fish than mammals. But after 1,000 years of hunting the Atlantic cod, we know that it can… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population.… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions,… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Girls and boys respond to stress differently - not just in our species, but in every mammal scientists have studied. Stress enhances… — Leonard Sax Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I feel certain that the largest part of all photographs ever taken or being taken or ever to be taken, is and… — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the… — J. Arthur Thomson Copy Share Image
Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
It's something I was very hesitant about, but we're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas. It's not witchcrafty or… — January Jones Copy Share Image
I've accepted the fact that there's a beginning and end to everything. All species are born, evolve, and then die off. We're… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
From a simple, mammal perspective, you think you're going to make friends through the movie. You think, "Oh, this kind of humor… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
I have always found small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and… — Donald Griffin Copy Share Image
Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
As a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal - in all of those areas, I am looking forward… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Among mammals, a virgin birth (parthenogenesis) can only produce female offspring, for chromosomal reasons. Messiahs are mammals. Therefore, Jesus was... On the… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all,… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves.… — Kristy Hinze Copy Share Image
