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. Experimentation on great apes—a smaller family within the ape superfamily—is currently banned in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand (29 countries total). These countries have ruled that chimpanzees, bonobos, 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. Table of countries banning all non-human ape experimentation Table of countries banning non-human great ape experimentation See also Animal rights by country or territory Great ape personhood Great Ape Trust Declaration on Great Apes Great Ape Project List of animal rights advocates Project R&R: Release and Restitution for Chimpanzees in US Laboratories Animal liberation movement Notes References External links ReleaseChimps.org Animal testing Animal rights Anti-vivisection movement Apes Animal testing on non-human primates