Arthur Guiterman Quotes

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

The first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself

Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.

Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.

We're interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see the practical consequences by watching 'Animal Planet.' You notice they make very few programs about gerbils. It's mostly about things that have big teeth.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

Horses are prey animals, and most of the other animals that I've shot are predators. If you act mellow with predators, they know that they can kill you, so they are cool, but if you work with prey, they think that you're going to kill them at any moment.

Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

The wolf asketh not how many the sheep may be.

If a man puts a lion's family in jeopardy, what would it do? Would it enjoy fighting? Of course it wouldn't, but it's going to fight.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!

Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.

Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.

There's what we expect bears to do and then there's what they do. Sometimes the two don't match.

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

Any dog, you put him in the corner, no matter if they're vicious or not, they're going to bite back.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.

Wolves can't catch what dogs do not expose.

I'm like a snake sleeping on a rock. I won't bother you unless you poke a stick at me.

When threatened, the nervous system sometimes goes into a 'freeze response.' You assess the risk and determine that fight or flight doesn't help you. Staying put does.

Most predatory animals, if you give them an inch they just go with it. Any animal - a tiger, a shark, anything - you can't act like something that is afraid of it and that's where all their predatory instincts come in.

We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.