The Spanish Herald is reporting this:

“The Spanish Socialist Party will introduce a bill in the Congress of Deputies calling for “the immediate inclusion of (simians) in the category of persons, and that they be given the moral and legal protection that currently are only enjoyed by human beings.” The PSOE’s justification is that humans share 98.4% of our genes with chimpanzees, 97.7% with gorillas, and 96.4% with orangutans. “

But why stop there?

The Eursoc blog has this to say:

“because of common ancestors we also share large amounts of genetic code with dogs (95 percent), mice (somewhere between 85 and 98 percent, depending on who you ask) and 74 percent with a primitive nematode worm known as C. elegans. And be careful how you peel that fruit, you fascist: Bananas share approximately 50 percent of our genetic code…”

Time for a banana republic, literally?