Speaking at a briefing on Monday afternoon, Thane Maynard said messages of support had come in from up to 1,000 animal experts and fans around the world, including the famed British primate expert Jane Goodall.
In a 65-page legal brief, the NhRP cites several specialists, such as the British primate expert Jane Goodall, to argue that chimps are "autonomous, self-determined, self-aware, highly intelligent, and emotionally complex beings who suffer from imprisonment".
In 1922, Edward Treacher Collins, a British ophthalmologist, wrote that early primates needed sight that would "enable them to swing and spring with accuracy from bough to bough…to grasp food with their hands and convey it by them to their mouths".
Back in the 1990s, the British anthropologist Robin Dunbar noticed a remarkable correlation between primate brain size and the social groups they formed.
William Charles Osman Hill (13 July 1901 – 25 January 1975) was a British anatomist, primatologist, and a leading authority on primate anatomy during the 20th century.
Following the deaths of Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara on 21 May, Tomás Ó Fiaich, by then Primate of All Ireland, criticised the British government's handling of the hunger strike.
In 1996, the British anthropologist Robin Dunbar proposed that language had evolved from primate grooming behavior.
21 May Two more hunger strikers die, leading Tomás O'Fiaich, Primate of All Ireland, to criticise the British government's handling of the situation.
When protests began in 1977 inside the Maze prison against the removal by the British of political status from terrorist prisoners, he and the Irish primate, Cardinal Tomás O Fiaich, with whom he often disagreed about republicanism, jointly lobbied the British government, pleading for modification of their policy of treating paramilitary prisoners as criminals.
Dunbar refers to Robin Dunbar, the British anthropologist who found the number by correlating the size of primate brains and average social group size.
In a 2008 issue of Scientific American Mind the writer Chip Walter argued, citing British zoologist Desmond Morris, that kissing may have originated from the primate behavior of pre-chewing food and passing it to the kids.
