Animals Quote by Karen Shanor

“Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous “make love not war” great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other.”

— Anonymous

“Who would you rather live with, a bunch of bonobos feeling good? Or chimpanzees eating each other's babies? Or humans waterboarding each other and…

— Francine Prose

“Some may have been as hierarchical, tense and violent as the nastiest chimpanzee group, while others were as laid-back, peaceful and lascivious as a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.

— Andy Dunn

Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they…

— Frans de Waal

“between chimpanzee and Homo sapiens.”

— Dan Brown

“I love chimpanzees. I love their stubbornness and their strength. I love the way they dig their fingers into life and never let it…

— Vanessa Woods

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 chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything…

— Jane Goodall

Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.

— Claudine Andre

Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended…

— Frans de Waal

Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa

— John Gunther