Animals Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

Baboons are poster children for psychosocial stress, living in troops with bruising and shifting dominance hierarchies among males and high rates of male aggression.

— Robert Sapolsky

If you spend enough time around something like baboons, you start to look at humans differently.

— Robert Sapolsky

If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

I'm reading Hans Kummer's "In Quest of the Sacred Baboon." It's wonderful. It's a scientist's journal about baboons, but it relates to the search…

— Stephen Greenblatt

A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a…

— Anonymous

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Baboons who have friends do much better in terms of their physiology. And if that applies to a baboon, it could certainly apply for…

— Robert Sapolsky

My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me…

— Giordano Bruno

Well! The buzz from the bees is that the leopards are in a bit of a spot... And the baboons are going ape over…

— The Lion King

“Not all social animals are social with the same degree of commitment. In some species, the members are so tied to each other and…

— Lewis Thomas

Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

— Peter Gabriel

“We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states.…

— Yuval Noah Harari