Primate Quotes

33 quotes by 26 authors

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on. — Christopher Hitchens
We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable? — Steven Pinker
The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh. — Frans de Waal
Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because… — Frans de Waal
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff… — Frans de Waal
Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we… — Muriel Barbery
Iâ€™ve never met anyone who had a monkey for a friend before. (Maggie) I donâ€™t know. I think those two guys you were with would… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time. — Eoin Colfer
You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire out its nose… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our evolutionary… — Michael Shermer
People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting… — Eric S. Raymond
''I will never give up because my primate instinct is to survive.'' — Jeremy Limn
In the beginning, according to fossil remains, the Homo Sapiens (humans) have been productively copulating for a minimum of 150,000 years or so. It is… — Johnny Luckett

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