Bid to get chimp declared a person

Austrian animal rights activists trying to get a chimpanzee legally declared a person have taken their battle to the European Court of Human Rights.

The Vienna-based Association Against Animal Factories said it had filed an appeal with Europe's top human rights court in Strasbourg, France, on behalf of a chimp it contends needs the legal standing to survive.

Austria's Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling in January that rejected a request to appoint a legal guardian for the chimp, who has been given the human-sounding name Matthew Hiasl Pan.

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