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The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something no reptile ever will. They give affection, they want affection, and respond to our emotions the way we do to theirs.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Affection Because Emotions Ever Fill Furry Give Homes Mammals Offer Our People Reason Respond Say Something Want Way Whole Will

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I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Baptism Barely Big Bit Catherine Catholic Catholics Choice Church Except France Funeral Just Just A Little Bit Like Little Little Bit Many Marriage Middle Only Raised She Three Wife Young I Was Raised

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I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a puppet show with a totally predictable story line. The only aspect I really liked was the music.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Aspect Aversion Boy Entire Like Liked Line Looked Mass Music Only Predictable Puppet Really Restless Show Sit Story Through Too Totally Training

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Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

~Frans De Waal

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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

Topics: Animals Attention Because Behavior Cats Dolphins Domestic Each Fail Get Hard Jump Little Make Normally Other Out Pay Precisely Show Similar Simultaneously Spontaneously Teach Things Together Try Two Water Which Will You

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Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Animals Dangerous Exotic Gets Hard Humans Interested Makes Most Particularly People Potentially Provoke Sometimes Them Used Which

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Scientist

Born: October 29th, 1948

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