Chimpanzees Quote by Frans de Waal

A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks.

— Frans de Waal

Chimps are brutal, and it is so deliberate. The males go out and get near the boundary of their territory. And they walk very…

— Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take…

— Frans de Waal

“Hare and Tomasello think that the social behavior of chimps is constrained by their temperament, and the human temperament is necessary for more complex…

— Michael S. Gazzaniga

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of…

— Jane Goodall

“Just as human politicians on election campaigns go around shaking hands and kissing babies, so aspirants to the top position in a chimpanzee group…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“And with our work,” John continued, “we are carving out a new social order and the next step in the human story”—i.e., the latest…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Wild groups of chimpanzees attack their enemies like gangs. What they completely lack, precisely because of their strong territorial behavior, is a friendly relationship…

— Frans de Waal

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just…

— Jane Goodall

“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

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

— Frans de Waal

Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have…

— Jane Goodall