{"quotes":[{"text":"I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.","author":"Garth Stein","tags":["chimpanzees","dog","evolution"],"id":20892,"author_id":"Garth+Stein"},{"text":"The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.","author":"Jane Goodall","tags":["chimpanzees","chimps","dead","hope","miserable","prisons","science","speak"],"id":135280,"author_id":"Jane+Goodall"},{"text":"In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.","author":"Jane Goodall","tags":["caring","chimpanzees","chimps","conservation","consideration","great-apes","help","human-rights","kindness","nature","saved","science","treat","understanding"],"id":176409,"author_id":"Jane+Goodall"},{"text":"It was the last time I would ever do that.","author":"Gail Gillespie-Fox","tags":["chimpanzees","compassion","inspirational","liberian","memoir"],"id":251884,"author_id":"Gail+Gillespie-Fox"},{"text":"It gets very hard to predict the future once you have smarter-than-human things around. In the same way that it gets very hard for a chimp to predict what is going to happen because there are smarter-than-chimp things around. That’s what the Singularity is: it’s the point past which you expect you can’t see.","author":"Nate Soares","tags":["ai","chimpanzees","intelligence","machine-intelligence","predictions","singularity"],"id":274797,"author_id":"Nate+Soares"},{"text":"If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?","author":"Frans de Waal","tags":["chimpanzees","humanity","intelligence","primates"],"id":287884,"author_id":"Frans+de+Waal"},{"text":"The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["anthropology","chimpanzees","humanity","stories"],"id":319994,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"Lucy preferred gin and tonics during the summer and switched over to whiskey sours in the winter. At dinner, a sit-down affair with the family, Lucy drank whatever the Temerlins drank, including expensive French wines. 'She never gets obnoxious, even when smashed to the brink of unconsciousness,' wrote Maurice, revealing more about the chimp's alcoholism than perhaps he intended. At one point, he tried to wean Lucy off the good stuff and onto Boone's Farm apple wine. Assuming she would delight in the fruity swill, he purchased a case and filled her glass one night at dinner. Lucy took a sip of the apple wine, noticed her parents were drinking something else, and put her glass down. She then graabbed Maurice's glass of Chablis and polished it off. She finished Jane's next. Not another sip of Boone's farm ever touched her lips.","author":"Elizabeth Hess","tags":["alcohol","chimpanzees"],"id":320813,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Hess"},{"text":"What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?","author":"Susan Block","tags":["bonobos","chimpanzees","loving","madness"],"id":322773,"author_id":"Susan+Block"},{"text":"The buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral. That was another of Cody’s metaphors for it; I’d said the sensation felt like an unbalanced washing machine filled with a hundred epileptic chimpanzees. Pretty proud of that one.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["buzzing","car","chimpanzees","cody","machine","metaphor","muscle","neutral","proud","washing"],"id":343081,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}