Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, Laureate Professor in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, and founder of the non-profit organization The Life You Can Save. His books include
Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason), Rethinking Life and Death, The Point of View of the Universe, co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, The Most Good You Can Do, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, One World Now, Ethics in the Real World, and Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction, also with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek. In 2013, he was named the world's third "most influential contemporary thinker" by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute.
发自墨尔本——本月上线的两部电影——一部是科幻大片，另一部则是纪录片——都涉及到大猩猩这种与我们人类亲缘最近的灵长类动物，并用戏剧手段将某些不应被忽视的感悟和教训昭示在我们面前。
鲁伯特·怀亚特执导的这部《人猿星球的崛起》是根据皮埃尔·布尔1963年发表的小说《人猿星球》——讲述一个居住着高智商类人猿的世界——改编的第七部电影，并将其宣传为“电影史上第一部由有知觉的动物担任主角，并通过其角度来讲述的实景拍摄电影。”但名为实拍，却没有一只真的猩猩参与演出。
相反，最早为《阿凡达》所研发“动作捕捉技术”使一个像安迪·瑟金斯这样的人类演员不必再大费周章化妆成大猩猩，单凭做出动作和面部表情就可以扮演剧中的人猿“凯撒”，甚至连他眉毛的一丝抽动都能转换成人猿的相关动作。
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