Baboons Quote by Anonymous

Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and interesting creatures…

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

— Robert Sapolsky

“I mean that in the absence of food, baboons will organize themselves to find a meal, but in the absence of leopards they will…

— Daniel Quinn

Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

— Peter Gabriel

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

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

— Anonymous

“Despite all their flaws, zoos wake us up. They invite us to step outside our most basic assumptions. Offered for our contemplation, the animals…

— Thomas French

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

You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act…

— Tarsem Singh

“Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don't escape to somewhere but from something. Something…

— Yann Martel

To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of parallel life.…

— Paul Theroux

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

— Carl Sagan