Will Cuppy Animal Quotations

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.

The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.

As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.

It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.