“I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.” PeopleFeelsI CanFeelingsAnimalPureComfortableEqualityMotivatedAnticipationAnticipateGorillasAnimal Intelligence Author:Dian Fossey
“If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.” IfsHumansLooksThreePerfectAnimalMilitaryFollowingLook UpVolumeHuman IntelligenceStepfathersAnimal Intelligence Book:point counter point Source: point counter point
“There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?” ThinkingWayInspirationalMotivationalUnderstandingAnimalAcceptingAwarenessDogConsciousCatAgreeSpeciesObstaclesMiceDolphinsCat And DogNewtsAnimal Intelligence Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.” IfsAnimalEatingArgumentEnvironmentalCrueltyMeatLabsEating MeatAnimal Intelligence Author:Margaret Atwood
“People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.” PeopleNeedsFeelsShouldWellsDifferentCharacterSeemsWould BePainJoySufferingHumanityVoiceNaturalAnimalAttentionStrangeMachinesPhilosophicalAffectionDareCrueltyVeganAnimal RightsDistinguishedAnimatedAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyAnimal WorldAnimal LifeAnimal EthicsAnimal TestingKindness To AnimalsDifferent VoicesDifferent AnimalsAnimal SufferingAnimal IntelligenceNatural Intelligence Author:Voltaire