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As people's lifestyles have improved, they've become more and more sensitive toward animals. It's becoming a universal value, like Western classical music.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

Using animals for entertainment is big business, plain and simple.

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.

With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.