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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Chimps should be recognized as 'legal persons,' lawsuits claim

""When we go to court on behalf of the first chimpanzee plaintiffs, we'll be asking judges to recognize, for the first time, that these cognitively complex, autonomous beings have the basic legal right to not be imprisoned," said Steven M. Wise, founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project."

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