“With the man/animal boundary so deep a part of the Western psyche, it is little wonder that many resist its dismantling on both a logical and emotional level, and with great confusion manifest between the two. Man's ability to exploit… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
I'm in the role of helping these apes negotiate the human role. I'm just a temporary intermediary in what I think will be eventual… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share
I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
We have a lot to learn from [bonobos], because they're a very egalitarian society and they're a very empathetic society. Sexual behavior is not… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
“Engagement, and its relationship to the accumulation and processing of information, is a little-studied phenomenon, representing as it does, individual skills rather than those… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
“With the man/animal boundary so deep a part of the Western psyche, it is little wonder that many resist its dismantling on both a… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
“The distinctiveness that we have so assiduously ascribed to ourselves as humans is, in reality, an accident of history. Imagine, for instance, how much… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
There is no reason to teach an ape to become human. There are many reasons to teach some apes and some humans to transition… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
“To fail to try to understand the world from the point of view of the lion or the bat is to admit that the… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
![“We have a lot to learn from [bonobos], because they're a very egalitarian society and they're a very empathetic society. Sexual behavior is not confined to one aspect of their life that they set aside. It permeates their entire life.” quote by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1ce/sue-savage-rumbaugh-43053_aspect_we-have-a-lot-to-learn-from-bonobos-beca_1377273.jpg)
