Apes Quote by Dian Fossey

None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of extant primate…

— Dian Fossey

Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more; his enormous…

— Dian Fossey

...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich…

— Peter Singer

There are five kinds of great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and the one which people always think of last: Humans!

— Andy Dunn

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

— Bauvard

“In sum, the great apes arguably man1 ifest at least some aspects of teleomechanical agency and mentalistic agency (Suddendorf and Whiten 2001); however, there…

— Scott Atran

“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

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

— Frans de Waal

“Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes.”

— Alan Bradley

“Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous “make love not war” great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other.”

— Anonymous

“Cast in the mold of humanity, they were distinctly not men. They were winged and of heroic proportions; not a branch on the mysterious…

— Robert E. Howard

In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we…

— Jane Goodall