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Animal activists had wanted a polar bear name Knut born in the Berlin zoo to be put down because they concluded a dead polar bear was better off than an alive polar bear raised in captivity.......

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... icbox&ct=5

....now this!

Another group of animal activists want a chimpanzee to be declared a person, with all the rights, thereof ......except the right to vote.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1

....beam me up Scottie!

Welcome to the demented post-hippy mad-land that is the EU

I don't know, I've seen so many humans that make a chimpanzee look like Einstein that it's not funny. For awhile, I felt like a magnet for every dumbass in my area and it seemed that even when I traveled, they were following me...lmao.

Everybody needs a "Trunk Monkey" while traveling...lmao....

It's the animal rights wackos at it again. If a primate gets the right to vote, what next will have the franchise-- sharks?? You will never see a "No Swimming" sign off the Great Barrier Reef again..

Everybody needs a "Trunk Monkey" while traveling...lmao....

I never heard of the trunk monkey before.  This is hillarious, especially the road rage one, and the auto theft one!  LOL!!!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8avOiTUcD4Y

I thought that was normal for Hollywood and the White House only. I mean have you actually watched Bedtime For Bonzo? The cute wee chimp proves he has more thespian talent than the 40th President of the US of A

Everybody needs a "Trunk Monkey" while traveling...lmao....

I never heard of the trunk monkey before.  This is hillarious, especially the road rage one, and the auto theft one!  LOL!!!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8avOiTUcD4Y

Trunk Monkey is a real hoot...lmao..."I gotta Get me one of those!"

I thought that was normal for Hollywood and the White House only. I mean have you actually watched Bedtime For Bonzo? The cute wee chimp proves he has more thespian talent than the 40th President of the US of A

Most Simians would probably do a better job...lmao

Didn't they have a sitcom called "Mr. Smith" or something that had an orangutan in the Whitehouse?

Hmmm, Cheetah is still alive at what 74? I see a write in candidate...lmao

What's really idiotic about the Hiasi case is that he has expressed no desire to be declared human, and probably doesn't want to be.
I hereby officially declare him a chimp.  ;D
I think it would be far easier for them to organize a non profit corporation and buy him from his current cretakers, then do what they want to help him. I admire their concern for him, but trying to force the general public to accept a simian as a "person" is a dead end.

This is absolutly rediculas. If any chimp were to be declared a person and sent off into the real world, he would probably rob someone within a few hours. But really though, this is like saying the family house dog should be declared a person just because he sits down and watches TV with you at night.  ;D STOP THE INSANITY.

That's just weird.

he would probably rob someone within a few hours

Yes but according to the nutters that is societies fault for repressing him and telling him he is a chimp and not allowing him to have equal rights as a brother simian etc etc

he family house dog should be declared a person just because he sits down and watches TV with you at night

Why not? Mine enjoys a nice drink, pizza and a good fart as well! In fact my dog is more tolerant of my bad habits than my wife is and the dog doesn't mind war movies! Mind you if there is a dog or horse on telly she does go a bit bonkers (the dog not the wife)

This might be a bit extreme, but on the other hand, I'm all for animal rights... We all know there are species out there that have a high intelligence, yet humans call them beasts and use them as they please... Where do you draw the line? So many people say animals don't have emotions. Yet anyone who has a pet, knows a cat, dog, horse, pig, ... can be happy, afraid, sad, etc... So why do we keep treating them like objects? Perhaps we should give all animals more rights...

What everyone seems to forget in this type of discussion ..... humans are animals the only difference is our advanced communication skills and our ability to manipulate our environment.

Having said that ....... studies have shown that dolphins and chimps have the same advanced abilities if we weren't here one of them would be the dominant species.

Humans have got to realise that we are no different to any other animal on this planet and when it comes down to it Mother Nature will do the same to us as she did to the dinosaurs.

Correct... most humans think to highly of themselves... we're only here for a moment and gone in a blink of an eye... puts it all in perspective...

yet humans call them beasts and use them as they please

I didn't realise you'd been to Wales Kris