Court won't declare chimp a person

Austria: VIENNA, Austria - He's now got a human name — Matthew Hiasl Pan — but he's having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take their challenge to Austria's Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal...

AP Photo: Hiasl, a 26-year-old male chimpanzee looks through the glass at his enclosure at an animal...

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