From the New York Times
The Opinion Pages
‘Animals Are Persons Too’
APRIL 23, 2014
This short documentary follows the lawyer Steven Wise’s effort to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans.
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Video Credit By Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker on Publish Date April 23, 2014.
Op-Docs
By CHRIS HEGEDUS and D. A. PENNEBAKER
How does a thing become a person? In December 2013, the lawyer Steven Wise showed the world how, with a little legal jujitsu, an animal can transition from a thing without rights to a person with legal protections. This Op-Doc video follows Mr. Wise on his path to filing the first-ever lawsuits in the United States demanding limited “personhood” rights for certain animals, on behalf of four captive chimpanzees in New York State.
Mr. Wise (who is also the subject of The New York Times Magazine’s cover story
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Exposing the Big Game 
Seems obvious to me that, for instance, wolves are our equal or superior. They rival us in social loyalty or exceed us. We cannot just talk about intelligence in human terms but in wolf terms, or another animal’s survival terms. They think, feel emotions and pain, joy, love, they parent. They solve problems, have cultures that span generations, spend a quarter of their lives learning from their elders, they grieve losses, and on and on: all the qualities of sentient beings. I think they are superior to the rednecks shooting and trapping them. Animal rights may be a fruitful way to go in seeking protections.
Yes. Far from being an apex predator ourselves, we are the apex parasites.
“Apex parasites” good one! That sums the species up completely! I may have to use that sometime, when referring to the species Homo parasiticus.
Thank you for showing us this work by this amazing individual !
I applaud and support his work
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