Great ape personhood
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Great ape personhood is a movement to extend personhood and some legal protections to the non-human members of the great ape family: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.
Bonobos, members of the great ape family, Hominidae
Hercules and Leo habeas corpus Order
Orangutan
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Orangutans are great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia. They are now found only in parts of Borneo and Sumatra, but during the Pleistocene they ranged throughout Southeast Asia
Great ape personhood
…is a movement to extend personhood and some legal protections to the non-human members of the great ape family: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. Advocates include primatologists Jane Goodall and Dawn Prince-Hughes, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, philosophers Paola Cavalieri and Peter…
Orang Utan, Semenggok Forest Reserve, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
Flanged male Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutans
Fossil skull of Sivapithecus sivalensis, an extinct relative of orangutan
Adult male (left) and female Tapanuli orangutans