Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

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

“like the social instincts of chimps, those of humans were adapted only for small intimate groups. When the group grew too large, its social…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“between chimpanzee and Homo sapiens.”

— Dan Brown

“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

Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never…

— Frans de Waal

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

“bonobos, related to chimpanzees and native to the Congo, have been found to engage in French kissing.”

— Karen Shanor

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The…

— Frans de Waal

“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

“A chimpanzee can’t win an argument with a Homo sapiens, but the ape can rip the man apart like a rag doll.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“I met a few chimpanzees on my pilgrimages and I wasn't sure if they were just shrivelled-up villagers or chimps...”

— Jonathan Dunne