Primatologist

🇺🇸Frans de Waal

Literature

1948–2024

"To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us."

🇬🇧Desmond Morris

Art

Surrealism

b. 1928

"The zoo animal in a cage exhibits all these abnormalities that we know so well from our human companions. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."

🇺🇸Jessica Lynch

Military

b. 1983

"I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do."