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

Nov. 18th, 2017 07:10 pm
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  • 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.

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