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If humans are entitled to fundamental rights, why not animals? In our considered opinion, legal rights shall not be the exclusive preserve of the humans which has to be extended beyond people thereby dismantling the thick legal wall with humans all on one side and Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights non-humans on the other side. While the law currently protects wild life and endangered species from extinction, animals are denied rights, an anachronism which must necessarily change. At a. Ptolemy called Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights the Mountains of the Moon. Ruwenzori National Park borders the Democratic Republic of the Congo; in the summer ofthe park is closed. War has ravaged much of the land that runs a thousand miles to the west, Uganda helping to overthrow the present government, which, in turn, overthrew the previous government five years ago. Fundamentalist Muslim rebels of the Allied Democratic Front are camped in ravines of the Mountains of the Moon because they are trying to overthrow the Ugandan government, which overthrew its predecessor fifteen years ago. On the drive west, I picked up copies of several Kampalan newspapers. One contained a radio interview with a Muslim rebel commander who was asked why his troops have indiscriminately slaughtered hundreds of Ugandans. He never answered. A couple of pages later I scanned a three-day-old warning from the United States embassy against visiting the area where I was reading the newspaper. Yesterday, I read about a firefight between Ugandan soldiers and rebels trying to escape back to the Mountains of the Moon. It was our second dawn together. The first morning, we had risen at to "unnest" chimpanzees. That meant following, by flashlight, a native Ugandan tracker, Donor Muhangyi, and a Spanish graduate student, Maria Llorente, who was interested in chimpanzee nestings. Terrified of snakes, I played the beam along the forest floor. There was no snake. Instead, I was trespassing in the beanfield that some determined villager had hacked from the steep hillside in what felt to be the middle of a black nowhere. Donor and Maria finally halted in the pitch dark and said we had reached the place where, the evening before, they had watched chimpanzees ascend and weave their night nests in the trees. We settled onto black plastic garbage bags to protect against the damp ground and silently waited for the chimpanzees to wake. And waited and waited. Soon, all the chimpanzees were up and out, moving too fast for us to follow. Now in his seventeenth field season of studying the Kibale chimpanzees, Wrangham had begun to understand how they thought. When we arrived, sure enough, Big Brown was high in the fig tree, along with his closest ally. No one else showed. Instead, we made for another species of fig tree, its fruit just ripening, to which Wrangham believed the chimpanzees would probably head when they woke up. We heard them coming a long way off, screaming, hooting, and drumming on trees. Wrangham told us to bunch together and lower ourselves to appear fewer and less threatening. Suddenly, five Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights burst into view as they traveled single file along a path that crossed almost in front of us. Each one hesitated when he spotted us, looked us Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights and down, then hurled himself up into the fig tree. Eventually, gorged on figs, they took off, with us in slow pursuit through the tangled vegetation and along the narrow trails. By the time we caught up with them, they had killed and eaten two red colobus monkeys and were taking turns dragging the remnants of the carcasses along the ground and into the trees. Then the chimpanzees were off. And so were we. After five exhausting hours, we struck a fork in the trail and, worn out, quit the pursuit. We decided to rest and refresh ourselves at the edge of the left fork before heading back to camp. Three minutes later, a surprised chimpanzee stumbled onto our group. We looked at him. He looked at us, then took the right fork and disappeared. Wrangham suspected he had been trailing us because he knew we were trailing other chimpanzees and would lead him to them. Developmental and comparative psychologist Michael Tomasello, who has spent most of two decades studying apes, finds chimpanzees "very sophisticated creatures cognitively. Chimpanzees are probably self-conscious. They use insight, not just trial and error, to solve problems. They have complex mental representations, understand cause and effect, imitate, and cooperate. They compare objects and relationships between objects. They use and make tools. Given appropriate opportunity and motivation, they may teach, deceive, self-medicate, and empathize. They transmit culture between generations. Captives raised nearly as human have learned thousands of English words at the sophisticated level of a human three-year-old and understand that word order is vital to sentence meaning. In the manner of a human two-year-old they produce hundreds of words and use simple grammar. They point and mentally share the world with humans and other apes. They use symbols in play. They count, perhaps to ten, and add simple numbers and the occasional fraction. They remember. Thirty-four times over nine months, Panzee, a language-trained chimpanzee, watched as objects she desired were hidden outside her enclosure. To obtain them, she had to recruit uninformed humans to help. Up to three days later, Panzee would point toward a hiding place, gesture "HIDE," pant or vocalize while pointing, or use one of abstract keyboard symbols to steer the human where she wanted. Chimpanzees flourish in rough-and-tumble societies so intensely political and devious they are dubbed "Machiavellian. In four chimpanzee societies, two captive, two wild, male and female chimpanzees formed coalitions Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights subdue the despotic power of an alpha male. Boehm says this action demands Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights "substantial cognitive ability" that it would be "foolish to deny intentionality where the goal is so unambiguous and the actors are obviously collaborating. It would seem that both wild and captive chimpanzees are able to arrive at and essentially agree upon political strategies, sometimes long-term ones, and shape their societies on that basis. Wrangham is the thesis adviser of a talented young Harvard anthropology graduate student named Brian Hare, who has spent time in Kibale and understands the natural behavior of chimpanzees. Hare confirmed what Wrangham told me. With Tomasello and his colleague, Josep Call, Hare devised a way to test whether chimpanzees know what other chimpanzees see and know by exploiting the natural preference of subordinate chimpanzees to avoid competing for food with dominant chimpanzees. When subordinates saw that dominants could see food they could see, they surrendered it to the dominants. But when they saw that a dominant could not see food they could see, they surreptitiously retrieved it, waited until the dominant had gone before consuming it, and sometimes even gave a false signal that kept the dominant away. Hare thought the most interesting finding was that when subordinate chimpanzees in one test became dominants in another test, they acted in the way "you would predict if they are perspective-taking. Then they take the safely hidden piece. Back to camp. Kakama was an eight-year-old whose mother was pregnant when Wrangham spotted him straddling a small log perhaps half his height. For the rest of that morning, Kakama bumped the log behind him, dragged it onto tree nests, played with it in his nest the way a mother would play with a baby, retrieved it when it tumbled thirty feet to the ground, balanced it on his neck, used it as a walking stick, and in general, Wrangham says, "carried that piece of wood in every way imaginable. He said they had spotted other chimpanzees playing with other logs in the same way. He had those logs neatly labeled, and filed away, too. What was an American lawyer doing unnesting chimpanzees in the black predawn of the Kibale mountains? Or examining chimpanzee dolls near where they had been dropped in the forest? Or hurrying along Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights wooded paths to glimpse chimpanzees on the hunt for monkeys? In an earlier book, Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals, I argued that, as the common law stands, normal adult chimpanzees are entitled to basic legal rights because of certain advanced mental abilities they possess. But I never had the privilege of seeing them in the wild, only captive in laboratories and zoos. Now I could engage in a five-day seminar on chimpanzee behavior and cognition conducted by an expert and confirm for myself that chimpanzees possessed these abilities. We will look beyond chimpanzees to test the eligibility of normal adult members of seven other species to basic legal rights. I argue that mental abilities that add up to "practical autonomy" are sufficient to entitle any being to basic legal rights. The question is who has them? Alex has demonstrated extraordinary mental abilities for an animal with a walnut-sized brain. We have already learned that dogs read human beings like a book. Closer to home, I visited Chantek, a signing orangutan, at his home in Zoo Atlanta. Chantek deceives, pretends, and uses a simple sign language of one hundred and fifty signs, marked by a rudimentary grammar. I called on Koko, a world-famous lowland gorilla, at her home near San Francisco, California. Koko has repeatedly scored between 70 and 95 on standard human child intelligence tests, routinely uses hundreds of signs to communicate, and understands thousands of English words. Both Chantek and Koko easily Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights the standard test for self-awareness. Occasionally a door did not open. I was unable to obtain permission to meet Phoenix and Ake, two Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphins, from Louis Herman, the professor who has taught them a simple artificial language at Kewalo Basin in Honolulu, Hawaii. Based on the present state of scientific knowledge about the minds of these animals, I will argue that the case for legal rights for some of them is overwhelming; for others, currently not. But each determination will be saturated in the highest legal values and principles, free of the pervasive legal bias against nonhuman animals, and deeply anchored in scientific fact. To deny the most deserving amongst nonhuman animals basic rights is arbitrary, biased, and therefore unjust. It undermines, and finally destroys, every rationale for basic human rights as well. And states without justice, wrote St. Augustine, are nothing but robber bands. 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