People can be a fine substitute for other dogs. But I think that if they had to choose, dogs by and large would choose the company of other dogs.

- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

We recognize caste in dogs because we rank ourselves by the familiar dog system, a ladderlike social arrangement wherein one individual outranks all …

- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and spare no detail, no matter ho…

- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute.

- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen.

- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

In truth, most of us don't know our cats.

- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

In the past even scientists have been led to believe that only human beings have thoughts or emotions. Of course, nothing could be further from the t…

- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the other species, we wer…

- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

As the cherub is to the angel, so the cat is to the tiger.

- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas