Happy the elephant will remain in the Bronx Zoo after New York’s highest court ruled in a divided decision Tuesday that she isn’t entitled to legal personhood and a right to bodily liberty.
The ruling was a loss for the Nonhuman Rights Project, which first filed a petition for common law writ of habeas corpus demanding a court recognize Happy’s legal personhood in 2018.
Happy is an “extraordinarily intelligent and autonomous being who possesses advanced analytic abilities akin to human beings,” the group told New York Court of Appeals, and she has been living on a “solitary and lonely Bronx ...
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