Apes Quote by Frans de Waal

“Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth,…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social animals like…

— Frans de Waal

“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

Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.

— Robert Sapolsky

“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

“Apes in their own habitat are less sexually driven than those in captivity. It must be that captivity, boredom, breeds lustfulness.”

— Saul Bellow

“For bonobos, a turbocharged sexuality utterly divorced from reproduction is a central feature of social interaction and group cohesion. Anthropologist Marvin Harris argues that…

— Christopher Ryan

I'm in the role of helping these apes negotiate the human role. I'm just a temporary intermediary in what I think will be eventual…

— Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human…

— Frans de Waal

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.

— Gregory Keyes

It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.

— Simon Critchley

Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they…

— Frans de Waal