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New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-monkeys dept.

sciencehabit writes Advocates of "legal personhood" for chimpanzees have lost another battle. This morning, a New York appellate court rejected a lawsuit by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) to free a chimp named Tommy from captivity. The group had argued that the chimpanzee deserved the human right of bodily liberty. Despite the loss, the NhRP is pursuing more cases in the hopes of conferring legal rights to a variety of animals, from elephants to dolphins.

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  1. Re:Too bad by ganjadude · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    thats funny, would be funny if you put in any other politician either. learn to laugh people

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