Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous. Frans de Waal Read Quote
War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits. Frans de Waal Read Quote
Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant. Frans de Waal Read Quote
There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves. Frans de Waal Read Quote
There’s a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines. Frans de Waal Read Quote
Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, ‘Doesn’t this guy have a dog?’ Frans de Waal Read Quote
In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food. Frans de Waal Read Quote
