Animal Quote by Brian Aldiss

Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion…

— Asa Gray

It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as…

— Charles Darwin

“The country's various habitats are believed to contain close to 200 species of mammals and over 600 species of birds.”

— Lonely Planet

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way…

— Steve Irwin

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.

— Sylvia Earle

The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

— Winston Churchill

An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals.…

— Daniel Pauly

The hardest animal was the vulture. But the horses were great, the dog was great [in Valley of Violence]. It was really easy.

— Ti West

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

— H. Allen Smith

If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

— Robert Breault

“Every two species that evolved from a common ancestor, such as horses and donkeys, were at one time just two populations of the same…

— Yuval Noah Harari