About Quote by Frans de Waal

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But…

— Jane Goodall

Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn…

— Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like numbers on…

— Jane Goodall

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have a dark side... 98…

— Jane Goodall

I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why?…

— Douglas Adams

When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.

— Frans de Waal

“We don't know how to communicate meaningfully with chimpanzees. Assessing the effort we invest in trying to get big brained mammals to do what…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.

— Lord Raglan

“Many of us shrink from judicial execution of even the most horrible human criminals, while we cheerfully countenance the shooting without trial of fairly…

— Richard Dawkins

The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything…

— Jane Goodall

“What chimps don’t seem capable of understanding is the state of false belief. They don’t have a theory of mind that accounts for actions…

— Karen Joy Fowler