Quotes Tagged With :primates

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

Why are there no nonhuman primates with an existing complex gestural language? One possible answer, it....

As I sit, my back leaning against a damp, moss-covered tree trunk, my eyes sweeping the canopy above,....

This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped.....

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

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

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

There’s nothing like a friendly handshake to establish social cooperation, but the bonobo handshake....

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

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