When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.

There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.

There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.

Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.