Quotes Tagged With :primate

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals....

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.....

When gorillas smell danger, they run around and call out to the rest of the primates in the jungle to....

Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching....

I’d been traveling in Asia long enough to know that monkeys there are nothing like their trombone-playing,....

Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such as"expropriating the expropriators,"....

Interestingly, bonobo percussionists prefer a tempo of 280 beats per minute, the syllabic rate at which....

Our probable ancestors, Homo erectus and Homo habilis -now extinct- are classified as of the same genus....

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks....