Top 1200 Animal Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory. People are being forced, to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

When our embassy is attacked in Benghazi by terrorists and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Russia invades Ukraine and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Syria crosses the red line and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Iran launches tests of ballistic missiles and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When North Korea attacks Sony Pictures and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. In other words, Mrs. Clinton, you cannot lead from behind. We must respond when we are attacked or provoked.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?

You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.

Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that order. The pair-formation stage, usually referred to as courtship, is remarkably prolonged by animal standards.

Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

I'm really an animal guy. I express myself in different ways as an animal.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.

Anger management (which is a part of both public displays of rage and spouse abuse) is about changing a person's internal reactions to events (how they see their behavior) by changing the support environment for the behavior (making them see the behavior is wrong).

[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.

The transitions from metallic to critical behavior and from critical to insulating behavior have been induced with a magnetic field, and from insulating to critical and then to metallic behavior with increasing external pressure.

In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

When you go through abuse - the behavior - what happens is all behavior stems from faulty belief.

Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

Behavior is a virus. We spread our behavior to those around us, whether passively or on purpose.

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal's physical health problems by listening to the animals.

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

Be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.

Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal."

I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.

The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.

Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.'

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.

Tastes and behavior are important in economics. Nobody denies that. But the question is: How much of behavior is irrational, and how much of the irrational behavior really affects prices? It turns out that's very difficult to answer.

There are absolutely ways to manipulate behavior, because our behavior is endlessly being manipulated by the world around us.

It is easier to recognize the quality of leadership in the behavior of their followers than it is in the behavior of the leader.

There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.