When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees will eat a little bit of meat. But, they never eat dairy products, and no other animal would do that. — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone. — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
Other people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others.… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then]… — Adriaan Kortlandt Copy Share Image
Considering the very close genetic relationship that has been established by comparison of biochemical properties of blood proteins, protein structure and DNA,… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“It is inconceivable that you would ever see two chimpanzees carrying a log together.”52 I was stunned. Chimps are arguably the second-smartest… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“How healing it was to be back at Gombe again, and by myself with the chimpanzees and their forest. I had left… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them?… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Si! Today there was a report from scientists who have spent their entire lives studying chimpanzees and you know what they said?… — Suzanne Harper Copy Share Image
“Lucy preferred gin and tonics during the summer and switched over to whiskey sours in the winter. At dinner, a sit-down affair… — Elizabeth Hess Copy Share Image
“[Professor Kinnerton] Has the fact that we have about 97 percent of our DNA in common with chimpanzees escaped you? How can… — Peter Kazmaier Copy Share Image
What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It is inconceivable that you would ever see two chimpanzees carrying a log together. — Michael Tomasello Copy Share Image
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
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