An orangutan who was ruled Argentina�s �first non-human person?is moving to a sanctuary in Florida.
The 33-year-old primate named Sandra born in an East German zoo and sold to Buenos Aires Zoo in 1994. Lawyers won an appeal in 2015 arguing she was being detained illegally. The ruling by Argentine judge Elena Liberatori was in response to a complaint by an Argentine animal rights group that Sandra was living in inadequate conditions.
The zoo shut down in 2016, but Sandra remained there, alone in her concrete enclosure because setting her free in the wild would have endangered her life, because she had never lived outside of captivity and because she is a hybrid of two different types of orangutan, Sumatran and Bornean.
The 33-year-old primate named Sandra born in an East German zoo and sold to Buenos Aires Zoo in 1994. Lawyers won an appeal in 2015 arguing she was being detained illegally. The ruling by Argentine judge Elena Liberatori was in response to a complaint by an Argentine animal rights group that Sandra was living in inadequate conditions.
The zoo shut down in 2016, but Sandra remained there, alone in her concrete enclosure because setting her free in the wild would have endangered her life, because she had never lived outside of captivity and because she is a hybrid of two different types of orangutan, Sumatran and Bornean.