It Is Curiosity, Quite Right-a Divine Curiosity.

What I Am Interested In With Birds, Just As I Am With Spiders Or Monkeys, Is What They Do And Why They Do It.

I've Never Actually Met One In The Wild, But I Have Seen A King Cobra. They Go Towards People, They Rear Up Six Feet Tall And They're Very Aggressive And They Are Very Fast. And One Bite Means Certain Death. So If I Encountered A King Cobra In The Wild I Would Be Very Alarmed.

I Find It Far More Awesome, Wonderful, That Creation; Our Appearance In The World; Should Be The Culmination, Or At Least One Of The Latest Products Of 3,000 Million Years Of Organic Evolution, Than A Kind Of Country Trick, Taking A Rib Out Of A Man's Side In A Trance.

All Life Is Related. And It Enables Us To Construct With Confidence The Complex Tree That Represents The History Of Life

I'm Not A Propagandist, I'm Not A Polemicist; My Primary Interest Is Just Looking At And Trying To Understand How Animals Work.