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  • Orangutan Granted Legal Personhood, Moves to Florida, Becomes Florida Woman

    11/08/2019 8:50:19 PM PST · by simpson96 · 50 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 11/7/2019 | Malika Malaea
    An orangutan who was granted legal personhood in a landmark 2015 ruling has moved into the Center for Great Apes in central Florida. Judge Elena Liberatori's ruling declared that Sandra was legally not an animal, but a non-human person. That meant the orangutan was entitled to some legal rights enjoyed by humans, plus better living conditions, reports The Miami Herald. "With that ruling I wanted to tell society something new, that animals are sentient beings and that the first right they have is our obligation to respect them," Liberatori said. The 2015 ruling came after animal rights campaigners filed a...