Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.
I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.
Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It's a very blurry line, and it's getting more blurry all the time.
It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey
I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.
I'm reading Hans Kummer's "In Quest of the Sacred Baboon." It's wonderful. It's a scientist's journal about baboons, but it relates to the search for human origin.
Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.
Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.
Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it.
Other people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way.
