Quotes About Animal

Here we are, two of the world's experts on chimpanzee behavior, and we have no idea how to control this one animal." And he laughed bitterly. For the first time in my life I felt at a total loss. I had no idea what to do, no answer for him. I felt only dread for what the future might hold.

Animal behaviorists have noted again and again that predatory species often kill when they have no desire to eat. They are killing because the instinct to kill is very strong.

The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind.

I successfully chloroformed a hedgehog that was entangled in the tennis net and so managed to release it.

Précisément! The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.

The cat is obeying its blood instinct when it plays with the mouse! It's made that way.

She looked, I decided this morning, much more like a horse than a human being. In fact she would have been a very nice horse with a little grooming.

Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal.

There is no god without animality, no animal without humanity, no man without a portion of divinity

What is a dog? A dog is a four-legged animal that eats, sleeps, runs around, and smells when wet! It has a nose, a tail for wagging, and strange ears. These ears can hear food from half a mile away, but cannot hear 'NO' from three feet. If you throw something for a dog, he may go and get it, but he's not very likely to give it back - this is called "Fetch." Dogs also make a lots of noise, have wet noses, sticky tongues, and many disgusting habits.

Don't accept contingency fees or "pay for performance"; you're not a trained animal act. Variables are often outside your control, and besides, you're being paid for your best advice. It's up to the client to implement it effectively.

I have a pet goat.

Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore. Or, they are strays who've been on their own without the loving care they deserve.

We all need to get our pets spayed or neutered.

I've always had a dog phobia.

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.

I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.

It's very expensive to maintain pure breed pigs. But I am an animal lover, so it wasn't a problem for me.

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

I have definitely got more than a few pieces of cheetah in my wardrobe.

Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears.

In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.

About the rhinoceros Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste.