Bonobos Quote by Frans de Waal Download Open image “Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.” — Frans de Waal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bonobos Fit Human Humans Ideal Male Males Really
Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males. — Claudine Andre Copy Share Image
Most men probably wouldn't want to live the lives of bonobos. They're constantly clinging to their mothers' apron strings. They lack the ability to… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Bonobos don't really have that darker side. So that's where they could really help us is how could it be that a species that… — Claudine Andre Copy Share Image
Bonobos may have a brain that's a third the size of ours, but they're remarkably intelligent. — Claudine Andre Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Who would you rather live with, a bunch of bonobos feeling good? Or chimpanzees eating each other's babies? Or humans waterboarding each other and… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men. — Harry Hooton Copy Share Image
If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“on August 16, 1996, when an eight-year-old female gorilla named Binti Jua helped a three-year-old boy who had fallen eighteen feet into the primate… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“humans are a strange lot. We have the power to analyze and explore the world around us, yet panic as soon as the evidence… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males. — Claudine Andre Copy Share Image
“In a world divided by chimpophiles and bonobophiles, we all had a good laugh when Stephen peeled his banana. (62)” — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Bonobos may have a brain that's a third the size of ours, but they're remarkably intelligent. — Claudine Andre Copy Share Image
We have a lot to learn from [bonobos], because they're a very egalitarian society and they're a very empathetic society. Sexual behavior is not… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
Bonobos don't really have that darker side. So that's where they could really help us is how could it be that a species that… — Claudine Andre Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Its important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know thats a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the bonobo apes… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image