Rattling The Cage: Toward Legal Rights For AnimalsHachette+ORM, 08.07.2014 - 384 Seiten Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of these apes entitle them to freedom from imprisonment and abuse. |
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... wild chimpanzees at Gombe, for example, has taught us much about these relatives of ours, each with his or her own unique personality. They share so many of our behaviors. They form close affectionate bonds with each other that may ...
... wild chimpanzees at Gombe, for example, has taught us much about these relatives of ours, each with his or her own unique personality. They share so many of our behaviors. They form close affectionate bonds with each other that may ...
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... wild and in captivity. They demonstrated the astonishing range, depth, and complexity of the known cognitive abilities of chimpanzees. According to these experts, chimpanzees possess an autobiographical self, episodic memory (one's long ...
... wild and in captivity. They demonstrated the astonishing range, depth, and complexity of the known cognitive abilities of chimpanzees. According to these experts, chimpanzees possess an autobiographical self, episodic memory (one's long ...
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... wild chimpanzees in Africa.10 We don't know the number of bonobos because they weren't then considered a species separate from chimpanzees. But it was probably about half a million. By 1998, only 200,000 chimpanzees remained, perhaps as ...
... wild chimpanzees in Africa.10 We don't know the number of bonobos because they weren't then considered a species separate from chimpanzees. But it was probably about half a million. By 1998, only 200,000 chimpanzees remained, perhaps as ...
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... wild, if not all, at least the greater part of them, for food and the provisions of clothing and various instruments. Now if nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain, the inference must be that she has made all animals for ...
... wild, if not all, at least the greater part of them, for food and the provisions of clothing and various instruments. Now if nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain, the inference must be that she has made all animals for ...
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Inhalt
1 | |
9 | |
3 The Legal Thinghood of Nonhuman Animals | 23 |
4 Border Crossings | 35 |
5 What Are Legal Rights? | 49 |
6 Liberty and Equality | 63 |
7 The Common Law | 89 |
8 Consciousness Taxonomy and Minds | 119 |
9 Seasons of the Mind | 163 |
10 Chimpanzee and Bonobo Minds | 179 |
11 Bending Toward Justice | 239 |
Other Cages Other Peaks | 267 |
Notes | 271 |
About the Author | 339 |
Index | 341 |
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