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

The elephant in question is Happy, who’s been kept at the Bronx Zoo for the last 45 years and in isolation for the last 15. The Nonhuman Rights Project, the animal rights nonprofit that brought ...

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 ...

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

An elephant is not a legal person entitled ... It is also unclear from the legal submissions to the court if the Nonhuman Rights Project ever sought Happy’s consent to this move, or how she ...

The advocates at the Nonhuman Rights Project argued that Happy is an autonomous, cognitively complex elephant worthy of the right reserved in law for “a person.” Two judges, Rowan Wilson and ...