Ahead Quote by Frans de Waal

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The…

— Frans de Waal

It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true of scientists.…

— Frans de Waal

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must…

— Frans de Waal

We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know…

— Alison Jolly

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone.

— Oliver Herford

One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.

— Jane Goodall

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

— Jaco Pastorius

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to…

— Adriaan Kortlandt

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all.

— Wolfgang Kohler

Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a…

— H. L. Mencken

The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust.

— Jane Goodall