A court ruled that an elephant named Happy at the Bronx Zoo is not a person and is not subject to human rights.

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 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 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 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 New York Court of Appeals has ruled that "Happy" the elephant has no human writ of habeas corpus rights that would allow ...

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 ...

The 5-2 decision by the court comes in a closely watched case that tested the boundaries of applying human rights to animals.

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 ...

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 ...