Bonobo Quote by Anonymous

“I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard”

— Alfred Döblin

Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.

— Claudine Andre

Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.

— Andy Dunn

“Who would you rather live with, a bunch of bonobos feeling good? Or chimpanzees eating each other's babies? Or humans waterboarding each other and…

— Francine Prose

“What appears to be lacking, even in great apes, is a motivation to find means to exchange what is on each other’s minds.”

— Thomas Suddendorf

“Some may have been as hierarchical, tense and violent as the nastiest chimpanzee group, while others were as laid-back, peaceful and lascivious as a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with…

— Frans de Waal

“Apes have a wide variety of sexual arrangements. That means, by the way, that there is no such thing as an “ape legacy” that…

— Steven Pinker

“My nation, your nation, my religion, your religion, my culture, your culture, will be the end of us apes - outwardly fancy, inwardly filthy,…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy.”

— Bauvard

“bonobos, related to chimpanzees and native to the Congo, have been found to engage in French kissing.”

— Karen Shanor

“Because we’re human, and humans are mean, independent monkeys that reached their greatness by killing every other species of hominid that looked at us…

— James S.A. Corey