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Quotes from How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes — Will Cuppy

d. 1949 United States

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The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.

How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931)

To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.

How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931)

Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.

How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931)

All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.

How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931)

Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.

How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931)

[Footnote:] Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.

How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931)

[Footnote:] Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.

How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931)

[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.

How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931)

The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.

How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931)

[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.

How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931)

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