Biologiste britannique, ami de Charles Darwin, il était surnommé « Le bouledogue de Darwin ». Huxley fut convaincu par la théorie de l'évolution. Il publia en 1863 Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (La Place de l'homme dans la nature) dans lequel il développa la thèse que les singes anthropoïdes sont nos proches parents, ce qui lui valut des critiques de la part des non-évolutionnistes
"Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache," said Hon Hai chairman Terry Gou at a recent year-end party, adding that he wants to learn from Chin Shih-chien, director of Taipei Zoo, regarding how animals should be managed.
“ Take gorillas for example – the reason they are going extinct is not because humans are actively hostile towards them, but because we control the environments in ways that suit us, but are detrimental to their survival. ”