Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young..

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotion….

Become as knowledgeable as possible..

It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior..

You know the old expression "We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children"? Well it's just not true. We haven….

That's what keeps me going. Everywhere I go there are young people with shining eyes wanting to tell me, "Dr. Jane, we're going to make the world a b….

However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric..

Chimpanzees can be quite political..

....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard of livin….

A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out..

If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls..

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. To….

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make..

I believe the only hope for mankind lies in the hands of our young people..

The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust..

Just think of the trust that often exists in soldiers. Within their own unit, you could say they have to trust each other. A spirit of camaraderie bu….

Hundreds and thousands of young people around the world can break through and can make this a better world for all living things. Once young people k….

Our brain is almost the same as the chimps', but we have language, we have electronic communications, we've put people on the moon - we are immensely….

The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes f….

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists..

Chimps are brutal, and it is so deliberate. The males go out and get near the boundary of their territory. And they walk very silently trying hard no….