Author Archives: NhRP

Congratulations to Daniel Levey, our volunteer of the month for May 2012. Dan has been volunteering for the Nonhuman Rights Project since November 2011. Dan is a member of the legal working group and is conducting research on the English … Continue reading →

Chimpanzees in the wild typically live 40 to 50 years. In captivity, they sometimes live to about 60 (but longer doesn’t mean better). Little Mama, however, is in a class of her own. She’s believed to be 74 years old. … Continue reading →

Chimpanzees at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center Field Station are housed in multi-generational social groups. If you want to understand human nature, learn from other animals – especially chimpanzees. That’s the word from one of the world’s experts on … Continue reading →

Researchers at the Bonobo Hope Great Ape Trust Sanctuary in Des Moines, Iowa, have developed a tablet app that allows humans to communicate with the great apes who are living at their sanctuary. The system operates through simple lexigrams of the … Continue reading →

At the 2012 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver in February, scientists and philosophers posed the question: Should certain nonhuman animals – specifically in this case dolphins – be recognized as “persons” in … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Blake Mills, our volunteer of the month for April 2012. Blake began working for the Nonhuman Rights Project in the summer of 2011 after taking Steven Wise’s Animal Rights Law and Jurisprudence class at Lewis & Clark Law … Continue reading →

Here’s yet another example of how chimpanzees exhibit altruistic behavior toward each other. Last September, a group of wildlife researchers were studying wildlife in an African rainforest when one of them, Nahoko Tokuyama of Kyoto University in Japan, heard a … Continue reading →

When things get rowdy in the playground at school, the teacher may decide to step in. As we’re now learning, chimpanzees do much the same thing. A new study shows that older chimpanzees take on the job of what scientists … Continue reading →

Members of the Nonhuman Rights Project’s Legal Working Group have spent three years researching the legal issues surrounding the use of the common law writ of habeas corpus as a cause of action in lawsuits in which we demand that … Continue reading →

The Nonhuman Rights Project will be filing its first suits in 2013. Here’s some of the work that needs to be completed prior to that time. We will be completing five years’ worth of research that serves as a tool … Continue reading →

The Nonhuman Rights Project today issued the following press release: Feb 8th, 2012: Seventy-two hours after hearing oral argument on SeaWorld’s Motion to Dismiss PETA’s case, the Federal Court in San Diego dismissed PETA’s claims that the plaintiff orcas were … Continue reading →

In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, the senior biologist for the Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society expressed serious concerns over PETA’s lawsuit against SeaWorld on behalf of five orcas. “I would love to be wrong, and that they find … Continue reading →

Last Monday, on NBC’s “Rock Center with Brian Williams,” we met Ken (photo right) and Rosie, two chimpanzees at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio. Chimpanzees are an endangered species, and the chimpanzee vivisection industry is becoming something of … Continue reading →