Chimpanzees Quote by 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

Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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

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

Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.

— Ted Turner

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

Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs…

— Alison Gopnik

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

The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant…

— Robert Trivers

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must…

— Frans de Waal

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

It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true of scientists.…

— Frans de Waal