ANIMAL RIGHTS! ANIMAL RIGHTS?

[futurebird.livejournal.com]

I don't recall talking about animal intelligence/rights with you. So let's have at it!

What questions in the area of animal rights do you think are most urgent that we resolve?
Do you see hypocrisy in the way we protect some animals more than others?



First a poll:

[Poll #1768683]

Comments

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Yet the only one with wars is common chimpanzees, Gorillas actually being the nicest apes of them all. Chimps and humans have qualifications as sapient life forms that other animals simply do not have. Bonobos also qualify as well for that matter.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

I think there is evidence of "war" within dolphins and some whale species (and like human war, it's typically over either territory or mating rights). It's not all a love fest out there.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

I could believe that with cetaceans. The only land animals other than humans to wage war are chimpanzees and chimpanzees have no Geneva Convention or International Criminal Court. They do, however, have Rape of Nanking-level atrocities as banalities.