Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not…

Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I…

— Jane Goodall

...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human…

— Mark Haddon

No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You…

— Paul Mooney

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

— Clay Shirky

Its important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know thats a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with…

— Louise Leakey

Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a…

— H. L. Mencken

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is…

— Richard Dawkins

...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich…

— Peter Singer

The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors'…

— Roger Fouts

Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [ from the…

— Andy Serkis

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average…

— Jared Diamond

When you start to do research into gorillas or any kind of apes, if you're going to play them, that's one of the biggest…

— Andy Serkis

Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps…

— Ziya Tong

It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

— Katherine Applegate

It's gorillas here, takes a village to raise a villain here.

— Lupe Fiasco