They are still testing primates like Orangutans, Chimps and Bonobos to understand their intelligence.
Increasingly they are finding that they think more like us than was previously thought.
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&ur...BQ_tFVCVqA
The findings are significant. If they really think like we do then they are closer to us than we are acknowledging. If they think like humans then we are going to need to rethink how we treat the great apes. There is some possibility of the great apes having non human personhood status. I wonder if that is enough. These animals think like we do and are clearly "family". At very least we need to stop killing them and destroying their habitat. At best we need to admit that they are our cousins and treat them as such.
I hope we do the right thing before we cause them to be extinct.
Increasingly they are finding that they think more like us than was previously thought.
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&ur...BQ_tFVCVqA
The findings are significant. If they really think like we do then they are closer to us than we are acknowledging. If they think like humans then we are going to need to rethink how we treat the great apes. There is some possibility of the great apes having non human personhood status. I wonder if that is enough. These animals think like we do and are clearly "family". At very least we need to stop killing them and destroying their habitat. At best we need to admit that they are our cousins and treat them as such.
I hope we do the right thing before we cause them to be extinct.
Catherine