Isabella Rossellini Quotes

I'd been interested in animal behaviour as a teenager and had thought of studying it at one point.

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so many things are happening around us that we neglect to look at. Part of the passion I have for biology is based on this wonderment.

Cats and dogs are a very good window into the natural world: a chance to see how another species lives and deals with its problems, what they like and what they don't like.

I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time.

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.

With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.

Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.

The chimpanzee study was - well, it's still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we're simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.

Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.

My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.