Jane Goodall Quotes

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

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

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

The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything else is almost the same: Kissing, embracing, swaggering, shaking the fist.

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.

Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they tell us about the possibility of having peaceful relationships.

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

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

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.

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.

If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.

They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness.

Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

The chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.

… a bunch of chimpanzees.

Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day.

A computer can have so much more in its brain that a human can.

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

On one tour, I was collecting stories about pet monkeys. You'd be surprised how many people have stories about monkeys. The problem is, most monkey stories end tragically.

Chimpanzees can be quite political.

The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.

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

Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original tree, you would see the primate parents yelling at the primate teenager for sitting around and sulking all day instead of hunting for grubs and berries like dad primate. Then you'd see the primate teenager stomp up to his branch and slam the leaves.

There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.