Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News (Pittsburgh, PA) A lawsuit from an animal rights group against the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium is now moving forward. The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) ...

An animal rights group’s lawsuit against the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium is moving forward. In October, the Nonhuman Rights ...

A chimpanzee identified as Tommy pictured in a 2017 letter by PETA to the USDA requesting an investigation of the DeYoung Family Zoo in Wallace. (Courtesy of the Nonhuman Rights Project, via Michigan ...

FAIRHOPE, Pa. – A Washington, D.C.-based animal rights group that’s engaged in an ongoing legal battle with the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium has filed a petition in Somerset County court, alleging that ...

An animal rights organization has asked the Michigan Supreme Court to hear its case that chimpanzees in an Upper Peninsula zoo deserve constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment. The ...

In a case which the results would seem obvious to most people and make litigating it unnecessary, the Michigan Court of Appeals had to rule that chimpanzees are not “persons” therefore they aren’t ...

Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered “persons” with human rights, according to the state’s Court of Appeals. That means the owners of the DeYoung Family Zoo in the Upper Peninsula will not need ...

(AP) - Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered “persons” with human rights, according to the state’s Court of Appeals. That means the owners of the DeYoung Family Zoo in the Upper Peninsula will ...