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Court grants rights to Ape - ketchim - 12-23-2014 A court in Argentina has ruled that a shy orangutan who spent the last 20 years in a zoo can be granted some legal rights enjoyed by humans.  :-* Re: Court grants rights to Ape - ketchim - 12-23-2014 Sandra covers her head with a cloth to protect herself from the public gaze : at the Buenos Aires Zoo                              Re: Court grants rights to Ape - ketchim - 12-23-2014 Lawyers had appealed to free Sandra from the Buenos Aires zoo : by arguing that although not human, she should be given legal rights. They had argued that she was being illegally detained. The singular case hung on whether the animal was a "thing" or a "person  8) Re: Court grants rights to Ape - ketchim - 12-23-2014 In December a New York State court threw out a request to free a privately owned chimpanzee arguing that the animal was property and had no legal rights.  Re: Court grants rights to Ape - ketchim - 12-23-2014 Lawyers had filed a "habeas corpus" writ : in her favour last November over "the unjustified confinement of an animal with probable cognitive capability" Re: Court grants rights to Ape - ketchim - 12-23-2014 Snoopster !! pronounced : ha-bay-us kor-pus   ::LOL::