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Orangutan with human rights to begin new life in FloridaSandra covers her head with a cloth to protect herself from the public gaze at Buenos Aires Zoo (file photo) An orangutan which spent 20 years in an Argentine zoo is being moved to a US animal sanctuary after being granted the same legal rights as humans.Lawyers won a landmark appeal for Sandra in 2014, arguing she was being detained in Buenos Aires illegally.The ruling found her to be Argentina's first "nonhuman person, with the right to liberty".The 33-year-old arrived in Kansas on Friday and will undergo tests before moving to her new home in Florida.Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49856859