"Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true."
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"We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human"."
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"Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things."
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"I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior."
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"I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began."
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"Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known; there were no guidelines for such a field study; and the habitat was remote and rugged. Dangerous wild animals would be living there, and chimpanzees themselves were considered at least four times stronger than humans. I remember wondering what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task."
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"Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair."
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"I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them."
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"When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition."
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"If you look into their [chimpanzees] eyes, you know you're looking into a thinking mind. They teach us that we are not the only beings with personalities, minds capable of rational thought, altruism and a sense of humor. That leads to new respect for other animals, respect for the environment and respect for all life."
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"My favorite animals are dogs."
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"When I was a child, the African forest sounded like a dream to me, because it was full of animals and it was wild."
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"It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this country."
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"Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it."
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"I don't even think of chimps as animals. I think of them as beings."
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"Catherine! Get out of my way. I need to have a word with that thing." Since she usually called Bones "filthy animal", I assumed "thing" meant Ian."
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"Technology didn't just go, clunk. It was this early disease, starting with a plow, I guess, or something like that, the first tool that made it so you could do more things. The first domesticated animal, or the first wheel."
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"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults"
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"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?"
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"I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories."
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