Animal Habitat Quotes

For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.

My neighbors are crocodiles and tigers and giraffes.

The mole can't live in your dollhouse.

We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren't very abundant and have competition, even within a single animal. We introduce them into a new, rich habitat called the human population, where they can flourish more abundantly and cause more trouble.

This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.

A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were demanded for their trip to the zoo. ... [H]appily the babies did not know they would never see their mountain home again

Bears don't live on Park Avenue.

You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?

I live in Australia Zoo. I have a very private home. We've got three bedrooms, one bathroom... The carpets are rose-coloured, which grossed Steve out, but I love it. He let me do everything the way I wanted. The house is just warm and cozy and small.

Trees are essentially growing chairs. There are lots of primates that sit and sleep in them.

The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.

Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people.

Enrichment happened to be my favorite time of day in the Children's Zoo, since it offered relief from the security-guard-esque standing around that makes up most of a zookeeper's day.

There is a horse here-the furthest north of any horse, and he eats fish and travels on snowshoes.

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.