New York Supreme Court grants two chimpanzees personhood

A New York Supreme Court judge has granted two chimpanzees legal personhood.

The ruling allows animal rights activists to represent the chimpanzees
in a hearing to contest their confinement at a university research
centre.

Mimi Chiahemen reports

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