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Typical working mom? No, a wild baboon living on the plains of Kenya. But in ways that are deeper and more resonant than most people realize, female baboons and other nonhuman primates are typical working moms. They struggle with the same challenges that human mothers face and work out surprisingly similar solutions. Tamarin mothers in the Amazon Basin rely on aunts and grandmothers to tend the young while the mothers forage for food. Moms and dads among Brazil's titi monkeys take turns minding the kids and bringing home the bacon, just as in any well-adjusted two-income human...
What causes porcine organs to be rejected so quickly is a sugar molecule on the surface of pig cells that identifies the tissue as unmistakably nonhuman. When the immune system spots this marker, it musters its defenses. PPL scientists recently succeeded in finding the gene responsible for the sugar and knocking it out of the nucleus of a pig cell. Their next step would be to extract that nucleus, insert it into a hollowed-out pig ovum and insert the ovum into the womb of a host sow. The sugar-free piglet that was eventually born could then be cloned...
...declares it to be "the animals' Magna Carta." It is by turns eloquent, funny and pedantically legalistic--dense with philosophical and legal history, and with the sometimes bizarre case law of humans and animals. Wise explores the legal basis for granting certain common-law protections and rights to certain nonhuman animals--only a few, really, notably the remarkably intelligent chimpanzees. Cows, pigs, minks and others may not qualify...
...Mass., and drove to begin work as a lecturer at Harvard Law School, teaching the rights of animals. What's necessary, Wise thinks, is to coax what he calls a paradigm shift in people's understanding of the human place, and animals' place, in nature. If--hypothetically--a certain nonhuman animal has a conscious mind, with faculties of self-awareness, language, emotional bonds and social skills, is not the animal entitled at least to legal protections against imprisonment, torture, vivisection and other horrors regularly visited on creatures that, legally speaking, have only the status of things...
...Wise hopes to coax what he calls a paradigm shift in people's understanding of the place of humans and animals in nature. If it is proved that a certain nonhuman animal has a conscious mind, with faculties of self-awareness, language, memory, emotional bonds and social skills, is not the animal entitled at least to legal protection against imprisonment, torture, vivisection and other horrors regularly visited on creatures that, legally speaking, have only the status of things...