[NEWS] Three links about smart animals: elephants as legal persons, cetacean footage, bonobo empathy

[rfmcdonald]

• Three elephants in Connecticut are the latest animals subject to a bid by activists to grant them status as "legal persons". The Washington Post reports.


• Gary Chabonneau has won a court battle versus the Vancouver Aquarium to secure rights to footage he took of their captive cetaceans. CBC reports.


• Bonobos have been proven in a recent experiment to have the capacity to be empathetic towards strangers. National Geographic reports.