Animal Rights Group Granted Hearing Because Chimpanzees Are 'Legal Persons'

This story is really bananas (sorry).

Someone needs to alert Jane Goodall because, if this animal rights group not named PETA has its way, the ‘Planet of the Apes’ will carry a little more weight.

It’s being called “the first case of its kind in the world,” which is to say “just when you thought you have seen everything comes this mess.”

According to NPR via Science magazine, New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe in Manhattan issued an order late Monday, called a writ of habeas corpus, which requires the State University of New York at Stony Brook on Long Island to defend its right in court to keep the primates, Hercules and Leo.

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