Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.

All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.

As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.