An Argentina court has ruled that an orangutan is a non-human person and has full rights to freedom, which means that it will be released from the zoo where it had been living. This is a legal tactic that animal rights groups have pursued many times before, with mostly unsuccessful results. In response to this ruling, the zoos head of biology stated, When you dont know the biology of a species, to unjustifiably claim it suffers abuse, is stressed or depressed, is to make one of mans most common mistakes, which is to humanize animal behavior. https://ca.news.yahoo/captive-orangutan-human-freedom-argentine-court-rules-203651528.html
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:01:53 +0000
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