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From the Ted Talk by Steven Wise: Chimps have feelings and thoughts. They should also have rights

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We then shrcaeed through 80 jsicuiortndis, it took us seven years, to find the jurisdiction where we wanted to begin filing our first suit. We chose the state of New York. Then we ddeiecd upon who our plaintiffs are going to be. We decided upon chimpanzees, not just because Jane Goodall was on our board of directors, but because they, Jane and others, have studied chimpanzees intensively for decades. We know the eatadirxnrroy cognitive capabilities that they have, and they also resemble the kind that human beings have. And so we cohse chimpanzees, and we began to then canvass the world to find the experts in chimpanzee cognition. We found them in jaapn, Sweden, Germany, satlocnd, England and the United States, and amongst them, they wrote 100 pages of afifitdavs in which they set out more than 40 ways in which their complex cognitive ctpiialbay, either individually or together, all added up to autonomy and self-determination.

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We then ________ through 80 _____________, it took us seven years, to find the jurisdiction where we wanted to begin filing our first suit. We chose the state of New York. Then we _______ upon who our plaintiffs are going to be. We decided upon chimpanzees, not just because Jane Goodall was on our board of directors, but because they, Jane and others, have studied chimpanzees intensively for decades. We know the _____________ cognitive capabilities that they have, and they also resemble the kind that human beings have. And so we _____ chimpanzees, and we began to then canvass the world to find the experts in chimpanzee cognition. We found them in _____, Sweden, Germany, ________, England and the United States, and amongst them, they wrote 100 pages of __________ in which they set out more than 40 ways in which their complex cognitive __________, either individually or together, all added up to autonomy and self-determination.

Solution


  1. jurisdictions
  2. japan
  3. capability
  4. chose
  5. scotland
  6. affidavits
  7. decided
  8. extraordinary
  9. searched

Original Text


We then searched through 80 jurisdictions, it took us seven years, to find the jurisdiction where we wanted to begin filing our first suit. We chose the state of New York. Then we decided upon who our plaintiffs are going to be. We decided upon chimpanzees, not just because Jane Goodall was on our board of directors, but because they, Jane and others, have studied chimpanzees intensively for decades. We know the extraordinary cognitive capabilities that they have, and they also resemble the kind that human beings have. And so we chose chimpanzees, and we began to then canvass the world to find the experts in chimpanzee cognition. We found them in Japan, Sweden, Germany, Scotland, England and the United States, and amongst them, they wrote 100 pages of affidavits in which they set out more than 40 ways in which their complex cognitive capability, either individually or together, all added up to autonomy and self-determination.

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