Affection Quote by Jane Goodall

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

— Jane Goodall

I never used to like babies. I'd always thought if a baby were more like a chimpanzee, I'd have one

— Candice Bergen

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a…

— 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

We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know…

— Alison Jolly

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our…

— 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

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 problem of the chimps is that they can only sit and look. They can't discuss what they feel. All that feeling is trapped…

— Jane Goodall

When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes…

— Octavia E. Butler

Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like numbers on…

— Jane Goodall

The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are.

— Frans de Waal