Chimpanzees Quotes

Chimpanzees Quote of the day

The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

Chimpanzees will eat a little bit of meat. But, they never eat dairy products, and no other animal would do that.

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time.

As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.

Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.

Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

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

When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't have human intelligence, you're not even in the game.

He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.

I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.

The loss of body hair is interesting to anthropologists, because it is a feature that distinguishes us from our nearest living relatives, chimpanzees. They have body hair, we don't.

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

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

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

Other people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way.

Chimpanzees can be quite political.

Wild groups of chimpanzees attack their enemies like gangs. What they completely lack, precisely because of their strong territorial behavior, is a friendly relationship with their neighbors.

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

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

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

The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

It was the last time I would ever do that.

What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?

Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!