Here’s a headline that caught my eye a couple of days agp: Great Apes Should Have Human Rights, Say Spanish MPs.

My immediate reaction was to double-check the calendar. You know, if it were April 1, I could dismiss the whole thing as a reporter just monkeying around with a catchy headline, but the article wasn’t a joke. According to the report, a number of the members of parliament (MPs) in Spain have been lobbying the government to adopt something called the “Great Ape Project” (GAP).