Sign language Quote by Jonathan Haidt

It is inconceivable that you would ever see two chimpanzees carrying a log together.

— Michael Tomasello

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

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

— 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 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

“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

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

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

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

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

— Jane Goodall

“We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states.…

— Yuval Noah Harari