biolog

An inexorable law of perception prevents us from seeing in the ape, particularly in the chimpanzee, an animal like other animals, and makes us see in its face the human physiognomy. From this point of view, measured by human standards, the chimpanzee of course appears as something horrible, a diabolical caricature of ourselves. …he is irresistibly funny and at the same time as common, as vulgar as no other animal but a debased human being can ever be. — Konrad Lorenz