Ball game Quote by 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

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

— Jane Goodall

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

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

— 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

You better not mess with chimps. They are much stronger than humans.

— Jane Goodall

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

Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something;…

— Frans de Waal

The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.

— Jane Goodall

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

“What chimps don’t seem capable of understanding is the state of false belief. They don’t have a theory of mind that accounts for actions…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“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