Paul Eluard Quotes

Elephants are magnificient creatures.

As I started to research gorillas, I began to understand that they're all totally individual and idiosyncratic, and they have their own personalities.

Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

Human beings don't want to just enjoy something by themselves. They want to share that emotion - they want everyone around them to enjoy it like they enjoy it or hate it like they hate it. That's what makes a video spread.

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

… monkeys …

The question of one versus two species of African elephants isn't about settling an arcane DNA argument; it's about life or death for these majestic, extraordinary creatures.

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.

You know, tigers are very unpredictable.

What's the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care for those animals? There's a lot of joy, and there's a lot of loss.

As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of time in the forests of central Africa. I know they're beautiful places that contain a lot of different kinds of creatures, including some that carry Ebola.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants.

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around. Or all of them are grumpy. Or all of them are sleepy and settle down. In such cases, the mood contagion serves the function of synchronizing activities.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.