Aggression Quote by Robert Sapolsky

Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and interesting creatures…

— Alexander McCall Smith

If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

If you spend enough time around something like baboons, you start to look at humans differently.

— Robert Sapolsky

Baboons who have friends do much better in terms of their physiology. And if that applies to a baboon, it could certainly apply for…

— Robert Sapolsky

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them,…

— Janet Fitch

“There are obvious psychological stresses on a person in a group, but there may be even greater stresses on a person in isolation. Most…

— Jonathan Franzen

Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

— Peter Gabriel

In their capacity to feel pain and fear, a pig is a dog is a bear is a boy.

— Philip Wollen

In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees…

— Tom Robbins

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save…

— Charles Darwin

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so…

— Christopher Hitchens