Baboons Quote by Frans de Waal Download Open image “The hamadryas baboon is a harem holder where one male mates with multiple females.” — Frans de Waal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baboons Female Harem Males Mates Multiple
“A harem is not a brothel, as so many Westerners erroneously believe. It is merely the women's living quarters. Male relatives can join them… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous. — William James Copy Share Image
Baboons are poster children for psychosocial stress, living in troops with bruising and shifting dominance hierarchies among males and high rates of male aggression. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
As with cows, mares, female camels, slave girls, buffalo cows, she goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter ,or his owner who obtains… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
“The harem could not be supervised by men because they posed a potential threat to the women’s chastity and the king’s bloodline. These women… — Jenny Nordberg Copy Share Image
There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male pederasts. Children… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“If you put two pregnant hamsters in the same cage, you know what they'll do? Eat each other. Female hormones are like undetonated warheads.… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Two chicks. I mean, ladies... ah - women, girls, whatever the term is. I'll get it. I've got it marked down somewhere. — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
“The four million Minangkabau living in West Sumatra consider themselves to be a matriarchal society. “While we in the West glorify male dominance and competition,” Sanday says, “the Minangkabau glorify their mythical Queen Mother and cooperation.” She reports that “males and females relate more like partners for the common good than like competitors ruled by egocentric self-interest,” and that as… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share
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 exhibit at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo. Reacting immediately, Binti scooped up the boy and carried him to safety. She sat down on a log in a stream, cradling the boy in her lap, giving him a few… — Frans de Waal Copy Share
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
Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
“Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather. ” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Right,” I said. “So the baboon, the crocodile…any other pets I should know about?” Amos thought for a moment. “Visible ones? No, I think… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
