Rattling The Cage

The scholar and author of An  American Trilogy makes the case to establish legal rights for chimpanzees and bonobos.   Rattling the Cage  explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of these apes entitle them to free