Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.

Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous.

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.

Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace.

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice.