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It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail.
— Frans de Waal
Tags: cats, together, water, you

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Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap a politician running for office can have, bigger than being gay, unmarried, thrice married, or black.
— Frans de Waal
Tags: elephant, gay, black, religion
The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
— Frans de Waal
Tags: curiosity, reflection, religion, science
Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.
— Frans de Waal
Tags: rule, through, solidarity, strong
The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.
— Frans de Waal
Tags: playful, human, strong, laugh
We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.
— Frans de Waal
Tags: evolution, need, animals, process
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