chimpanzee

If you give chimpanzee legal person rights, does that mean you give them responsibility if they murder someone?

What does it even mean for a chimpanzee to understand a highway?

Answer that question substituting chimpanzee for person who speaks a different language from you and you'll have your answer.

This in particular would equate an adult chimpanzee and 3-4 year toddler and senile 95 years old with advanced Alzheimer.

Heck, a shorn chimpanzee is practically in the same uncanny valley as the blue dudes.

Maybe tools like this have been invented and lost many times by various chimpanzee social groups over the past few centuries.

In genetics, that last 2% is the difference between a human being and a chimpanzee.

I would vastly prefer to be in a room with a mentally ill person than a chimpanzee.

How can you tell that the chimpanzee has a desire to live?

There are humans with profound, permanent mental disabilities rendering them less capable of participating in society than your average chimpanzee who retain their rights.

For example, consider this commentary on a recent study on Chimpanzee violence.

I can't wait to see the first chimpanzee lodge an objection with flying poop.

“She did not say that a chimpanzee is a person,” David Bookstaver told the New York Daily News.

In the Gombe Chimpanzee War, females were kidnapped, raped and killed as a method of destroying the "other" group.

If you demonstrated to an chimpanzee how you think and set goals in order to preserve "self" (and thus species) it probably wouldn't understand.

For instance, a photo of a chimp sitting on a termite mound is partially captioned with "A chimpanzee learning how to fish honey out of a termite hole...".

Chimpanzee has higher sentience than a 4-weeks old fetus which has sentience level of a fish.

The Third Chimpanzee, Jared Diamond - Human evolution.