1. How to Do Animal Rights - Great Apes
are bonobo ( Pan paniscus ), chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ), orang-utan ( Pongo pygmaeus ) and gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla ). A fifth great ape, the human ( Homo sapiens ), already enjoys many rights and is not included in the Great Ape
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2. How to Do Animal Rights - Mirror Test of Animal Consciousness
foreheads of sleeping adult chimpanzees when they were sleeping and observed what they did when they woke. The only way the chimpanzees could see the mark on their forehead was by looking in a large mirror nearby.
How did the chimpanzees react?
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3. How to Do Animal Rights - Bushmeat
the great apes - bonobos, chimpanzees and gorillas in Africa and orang-utans in south-east Asia – and the apes' survival is uncertain. Other threatened populations include elephants, crocodiles, guinea fowl, porcupines and monkeys.
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4. How to Do Animal Rights - Stop Calling Animals It
we call an animal an it ? A chimpanzee, horse, cat, cow or a mouse is as much a he or she as is a human. Calling an animal an it makes him inanimate material, a depersonalised object. As the philosopher Jeremy Bentham said:
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5. How to Do Animal Rights - Intrinsic Value
values. Similarly, only chimpanzees can gauge in chimpanzee values the intrinsic value of chimpanzees. Members of species might only be able to assess the intrinsic value of individuals of their own species. In this case intrinsic value cannot
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6. How to Do Animal Rights - Tom Regan, Richard Ryder, Peter Singer
who is more sentient, like a chimpanzee, has more to lose than a being who is less sentient, like a rat.
Among his many activities, Singer is a founder member of the Great Ape Project that is trying to influence people to confer on the great
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7. How to Do Animal Rights - Author - Playwright
into the body of a young chimpanzee from her dad’s research laboratory and has to adapt to her new position…
Gollancz published the novel in 1988 and Macmillan Children's Books published it in 2001. The story stimulates discussion on
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8. How to Do Animal Rights - Altruism and Animal Rights
danger come from wild chimpanzees:
chimpanzees eat plants and fruit but occasionally catch and eat baboons. A chimpanzee who catches a baboon sometimes gives bits of the carcass to soliciting chimpanzees. By giving away the food the
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9. How to Do Animal Rights - Painism
species, say a mouse and a chimpanzee, is difficult or impossible. We can only make gross, subjective comparisons and people may disagree about the level of suffering they are witnessing. Basing your moral action only on the subjective assessment
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