Michigan court decides that chimps are not entitled to human rights and must stay in the zoo.
A Michigan appellate court has ruled that chimpanzees do not qualify as “human beings” with human rights. This decision indicates that the owners of the DeYoung Family Zoo in the Upper Peninsula will not need to justify the confinement of their seven chimpanzees. The ruling, issued on October 17 by Judges Matthew Ackerman, Brock Swartzle, […]