New Zealand (1999), the Netherlands (2002), Japan (2006), the EU (2010), and the United States (2015) progressively banned or severely restricted invasive research on chimpanzees and other great apes, recognizing their cognitive complexity. The debate over where to draw the line in primate cognition continues as evidence of sentience in other species mounts.
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