20 Mammals Quotes for You to Enjoy

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals. Robert Anton Wilson

Not Perfect Our Ancestors Perfect Most Majority Gentlemen Were Mammals Ladies Them Even

Compared with mammals, birds have relatively large eyes. In simple terms, a bigger eye means better vision, and excellent vision is essential for avoiding collisions in flight, or for capturing fast-moving or camouflaged prey. Birds' eyes, however, are deceptive - they are bigger than they look. Tim Birkhead

Eyes Vision Better Simple Birds Relatively Eye Excellent Prey Look Terms However Mammals Than Essential Deceptive Bigger Means Flight Avoiding Large Compared Capturing

The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates. Bernardo Houssay

Quantities Greatest Mammals Substances Used Carbohydrates

We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. Craig Venter

Virtually Combinations Genes Know Known Mammals

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness. Elon Musk

Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either. Jack Horner

Down Birds Our Sides Out Dinosaurs Lay Could Throw Like Built Up Mammals Squat Get Just Legs Cannot Either

Every day, I get up, and I fill the bird feeders and put out fruit and other food for both the birds and any passing mammals. Is that pointless long-term? I have no idea. All I know is that on this day, in this moment, it makes a difference. Jeff Vandermeer

Food Day Fruit Every Day Bird Every Other Birds Out No Idea Both Pointless Put Idea Long-Term Know Makes Passing Up Mammals Get Any Difference Moment Fill

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will. Jock Sturges

Will Animals Other Evidence Particular Does Always Aesthetic Mammals Any Interest Lower Sapiens Homo Homo Sapiens

We have chosen to bring future generations into this world of rising seas and warming temperatures, droughts and floods, heat waves and wildfires, a world in which one in four mammals and one in eight birds are at risk of disappearing forever. While the damage we've done is irreversible, that doesn't give us the right to do nothing. Leonor Varela

Future World Nothing Birds Waves Future Generations Temperatures Give Rising Risk Disappearing Generations Droughts Forever Mammals Heat Done Eight Irreversible Which While Warming Us Seas Chosen Floods Right Four Bring Damage

I have mild albinism, which means I am very sensitive to light, so the animal representation of my spirit would have to be a mole. I am particularly fond of that most Lovecraftian of mammals, the star-nosed mole, and tend to choose it for online icons and avatars. Sarah Monette

About 15,000 years ago, humans colonised America, wiping out in the process about 75% of its large mammals. Numerous other species disappeared from Africa, from Eurasia, and from the myriad islands around their coasts. The archaeological record of country after country tells the same sad story. Yuval Noah Harari

Sad Country Numerous Other Out Tells Archaeological Record About Myriad Disappeared Sad Story Around Islands Years Years Ago Mammals America Same Africa After Process Story Large Species Humans

I have lived long enough to witness the vanishing of wild mammals, butterflies, mayflies, songbirds and fish that I once feared my grandchildren would not experience: it has all happened faster than even the pessimists predicted. George Monbiot

We’re not the only mammals who are partial to blackberries, far from it. Foxes and badgers will also gobble them up, helping to distribute the seeds, which survive the transit through the gut. Alice Roberts

Will Distribute Seeds Gut Only Through Partial Also Up Mammals Survive Which Transit Them Far Who Helping Foxes

When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the mammals you would never think of eating. Chuck Palahniuk

You Seen South Africa Think Visit Would Brother Eating Only Never South Mammals Africa Order Little Things Zoo