Well, this is interesting. in an article on MSN a court in Europe is apparently being asked to consider whether a 26 year old chimpanzee named Mathew can be adopted by a woman named Paula Stibb. "Animal rights activist and teacher Paula Stibbe, along with the Vienna-based Association Against Animal Factories, says she wants the chimpanzee, named Matthew Hiasl Pan, declared a person. That way, Stibbe says she can become the primate's legal guardian if the bankrupt animal sanctuary where Matthew lives closes. (Under Austrian law, only humans are entitled to have guardians.)....The case comes after Austria's Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling in January, which rejected a request to appoint the chimp with a legal guardian. The rulings did not address whether a chimpanzee could be declared a person."
gosh....what if next they declare that dogs are people. Michael Vick would be in major trouble...the Gods Must Be Crazy
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