Browsing Topic Best Animal Behavior Quotes

All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all… Ah, well, that’s not a fruitful thing to wish, is it?

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and ‘animals’ is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

Humans – who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals – have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.

With animal behavior, they’re all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior – my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.

I’m very interested in animal behavior, and the relationship of human beings to other animal behavior.