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Studying Chimps, I Came To The Conclusion That Being Evil Is Something That Only Humans Are Capable Of. A Chimp Would Never Plan To Pull Another's Nails Out. The Chimps' Way Of Aggression Is Quick And Brutal. I Compare Them To Gang Attacks.

Nothing Is More Precious Than Your Baby.

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 Thought My Life Was Mapped Out. Research, Living In The Forest, Teaching And Writing. But In '86 I Went To A Conference And Realised The Chimpanzees Were Disappearing. I Had Worldwide Recognition And A Gift Of Communication. I Had To Use Them.

Chimps Are Far Too Much Human To Be My Favorite Animal.