Chimpanzee habeas suit seeks declaration of ‘legal personhood’ based on cognitive abilities
By EsqSocial Corporation 03/12/13
An animal rights group asserts in habeas suit that scientific evidence supports “legal personhood” for a chimpanzee named Tommy. The suit filed on Monday by the Nonhuman Rights Project argues that chimps have complex cognitive abilities, including a “concept of their past and future,” the Wall Street Journal