If an animal is smart enough, should we treat it like a human? An abstract question, but one that found its way into a courtroom recently. A case bidding for consideration by the New York State Court of Appeals sought to extend the legal concept of habeas corpus — which allows a person to petition a court for freedom from unlawful imprisonment — to cover two privately-owned chimpanzees.
Humans Are Dumb At Figuring Out How Smart Animals Are
Maggie Koerth-Baker, FiveThirtyEight: Science & Health
Fri, 05/18/2018 - 7:25am
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