The courts are still on the fence about captive animals they're kind of arguing what exactly habeas corpus or the protection against unlawful detention and the right to bodily autonomy really means for different species do you. There are still scientific experiments happening with dolphins correct without their consent as well as abduction from the wild but where does the line between respecting intelligence and cognition of a dolphin versus wanting to know more about that cognition for the benefit of humanity? Where ethically do scientists draw that line that is a great question and it's there is no answer because the folks who are advocating are fighting for a personhood to be applied so certainly that would apply to an animal in this case.

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