The Nonhuman Rights Project was pushing for the distinction. A yearslong legal attempt to get Happy, an elephant residing at the Bronx Zoo, transferred to an elephant sanctuary failed Tuesday when ...

The case to release Happy, an elephant currently living at New York’s Bronx Zoo, has been unsuccessful. The Nonhuman Rights ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project argued that Happy is an autonomous, cognitively complex elephant worthy of the right reserved in law for “a person”. The zoo and its supporters warned that a win ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project and its founder ... "That same zoo has confined Happy the elephant for the past 40 years," Wilson wrote. "Unquestionably, Mr. Benga was a human being; Happy is not.

The question before us on this appeal is whether petitioner Nonhuman Rights Project may seek habeas corpus relief on behalf of Happy, an elephant residing at the Bronx Zoo, in order to secure her ...

Happy, an Asian elephant, had been captured as a baby ... respond to a request for comment on today’s ruling. The Nonhuman Rights Project called the dissents by Rivera and Wilson in the case ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project says the zoo’s pen is too small ... Smarter Than the Average Elephant Happy, the misnamed elephant, was born in 1971, then captured and dragged as a yearling to ...

New York's top court has ruled that Happy the elephant may be intelligent and deserving of compassion but cannot be ...

transferred to an elephant sanctuary failed Tuesday when New York's highest court rejected a petition from the Nonhuman Rights Project. The group filed a writ of habeas corpus on Happy's behalf ...

New York’s top court ruled last week that an elephant at the Bronx Zoo named Happy is “not a person” and therefore lacks the ...

A yearslong legal attempt to get Happy, an elephant residing at the Bronx Zoo, transferred to an elephant sanctuary failed Tuesday when New York's highest court rejected a petition from the Nonhuman ...