Animals Have Personalities And Minds And Emotions.

Words Can Enhance Experience, But They Can Also Take So Much Away. We See An Insect And At Once We Abstract Certain Characteristics And Classify It - A Fly. And In That Very Cognitive Exercise, Part Of The Wonder Is Gone. Once We Have Labeled The Things Around Us We Do Not Bother To Look At Them So Carefully. Words Are Part Of Our Rational Selves, And To Abandon Them For A While Is To Give Freer Reign To Our Intuitive Selves.

I Think I'd Like To Be Remembered As Someone Who Really Helped People To Have A Little Humility And Realize That We Are Part Of The Animal Kingdom Not Separated From It.

Chimpanzees Can Be Quite Political.

I Sometimes Wonder How Some People Can Live With Themselves In Some Of The Big Companies Today. So Many Far-reaching Decisions Are Based On How They Will Affect The Next Shareholders' Meeting.

Primates Are Very Territorial. It Is In Their Nature To Protect Their Food Resources As Well As Their Females And Young.