Three
Connecticut elephants were just given lawyers, and the
case sways on
free will
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A group of lawyers asked a
Connecticut court on Monday to grant
Three traveling and working
elephants "legal personhood," a status that would set these intelligent creatures free.
The
lawyers, of the
Nonhuman Rights Project organization, previously attempted to get courts in New York to recognize chimpanzees as persons, but couldn't sway the judges to accept that some intelligent animals should be
given the same rights to
free will as humans. Now, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a petition of
habeas corpus — a report of an unlawful imprisonment — for
Three elephants working at the traveling
Commerford Zoo, based in Connecticut.
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