page_title: Countries banning non-human ape experimentation
hierarchical_section_title: Countries banning non-human ape experimentation
caption_attribution_description: English: Worldwide laws regarding experimentation on non-human apes &#160;&#160; Ban on all ape experimentation &#160;&#160; Ban on great ape experimentation
context_page_description: This is a list of countries banning non-human ape experimentation. The term non-human ape here refers to all members of the superfamily Hominoidea, excluding Homo sapiens. Banning in this case refers to the enactment of formal decrees prohibiting experimentation on non-human apes, though often with exceptions for extreme scenarios.
  Great ape experimentation is currently banned in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. These countries have ruled that chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans are so cognitively similar to humans that using them as test subjects is unethical. Austria is the only country in the world to have completely banned experiments on all apes, including both the great apes and the lesser apes, commonly known as gibbons.
context_section_description: This is a list of countries banning non-human ape experimentation. The term non-human ape here refers to all members of the superfamily Hominoidea, excluding Homo sapiens. Banning in this case refers to the enactment of formal decrees prohibiting experimentation on non-human apes, though often with exceptions for extreme scenarios.
  Great ape experimentation is currently banned in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand (29 countries total). These countries have ruled that chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans are so cognitively similar to humans that using them as test subjects is unethical. Austria is the only country in the world to have completely banned experiments on all apes, including both the great apes and the lesser apes, commonly known as gibbons.
caption: vte Worldwide laws regarding experimentation on non-human apes            Ban on all ape experimentation    Ban on great ape experimentation
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