Is an Orangutan a Person?

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By Ken Ham

An orangutan at the Berlin Zoo in Germany.

Image credit: by David Arvidsson (originally posted to Flickr as DSC_1055_ApesEat) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Human rights are not just for humans anymore! You see, according to Reuters, animal rights lawyers recently argued in an Argentinian court that a 29-year-old female orangutan named Sandra was being held unlawfully in the Buenos Aires Zoo. They “argued the ape had sufficient cognitive functions and should not be treated as an object.” The courts recently decided that “the ape [is] a ‘non-human person’ unlawfully deprived of its freedom” and, if …read more

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