Chimpanzees Quote by Jane Goodall

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

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

— Russell Banks

“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or wolf, but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The romantic contrast between modern industry that “destroys nature” and our ancestors who “lived in harmony with nature” is groundless. Long before the Industrial…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Nature’s…

— Daphne Sheldrick

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

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty…

— Dale Jamieson

We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human…

— Colin Blakemore

The chimpanzee study was - well, it's still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a…

— Jane Goodall

They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and have humor…

— Pat Derby

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

— Konrad Lorenz

My study of the wild gorilla is not yet finished, and even when it is complete, it will contribute only a small part toward…

— Dian Fossey