GAP SPAIN

GAP Project Spain and other organizations are evolved in the fight for the preservation of a place known by “Yellow House”, at Canarian Islands, where the first noninvasive experiments to know the intelligence and learning abilities of great apes took place.
The idea is to preserve the property and convert it in a museum, in memory to the chimpanzees who lived there and to researcher Wolfgang Kohler, who worked there and published to the world the first conclusions that demonstrated the intelligence of those primates.

Canarian Supreme Court and Spain Supreme Court defend the preservation of “Yellow House” and its conversion in a museum: “We considered reasonable, considering the information presented in the administrative process, the protection of the place where the first primates investigation center of the world took place and where experiments to know better the learning process of apes were developed, so that it could be made the conclusion that chimpanzees have intelligence conduction similar to human and, therefore, cannot be considered inferior. These ideas are presented until nowadays and are the base of the debate about the rights that should be offer to these animals.”

According to GAP Spain, this is the first time that the most important law courts of Spain accept that there is a debate in the society and in the scientific, law and social communities about the rights of great apes in the world.
Now that Brazilian courts are also facing the trial of the Habeas Corpus of chimpanzee Jimmy, who lives alone and imprisoned in a private zoo with no opportunity to join with his equals and being exploited by humans, this manifestation of the highest Spanish court is a important support so that basic rights of chimpanzees can be recognized here too.

Dr. Pedro A. Ynterian
President, GAP Project International