Control Quote by Jaan Tallinn

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

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

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

Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have a dark side... 98…

— Jane Goodall

If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that's only…

— Frans de Waal

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

Chimpanzees can be quite political.

— Jane Goodall

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

— Frans de Waal

The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust.

— Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

— Russell Banks

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

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