NEW YORK, June 14 (Reuters) - Happy the elephant will stay at the Bronx Zoo after New York state's highest court on Tuesday ruled against an animal rights group that said she deserved some of the ...

Happy, the famous Bronx Zoo Asian elephant, was recently spotted in public ... Richard Harbus The Bronx Zoo paints a very different picture of the pachyderm’s psychological state, pointing ...

Director of the site, Jim Breheny, also waded into the argument by sharing a picture ... But Happy has been on her own since her last companion died in 2006. Patty, the only other elephant now ...

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 ...

Last week, the New York Court of Appeals voted 5 to 2 rejecting the argument brought by an animal rights group that an elephant at the Bronx Zoo, named Happy, is being imprisoned against her will.

Happy the elephant made history on Tuesday. By arguing for her release from the Bronx Zoo, she became the first animal to have a case for animal rights decided by a court of last resort in North ...

The elephant, named Happy, has been in captivity since she was one year old and has been kept at the Bronx Zoo for the past 45 years, the ruling states. The group fighting for her release ...

you can't miss our next lovely lady. As we're going to visit, we're happy. Our asian elephant. The first thing you'll notice about an elephant is her size. She weighs approximately £10,000.

A female Asian elephant at the Bronx Zoo isn’t legally considered a person, the New York Court of Appeals ruled today. Happy has been embroiled in a years-long battle between animal rights ...

By James Barron Good morning. It’s Wednesday. We’ll look at a court ruling that said Happy the Elephant does not have the same rights as a human. We’ll also look at Mayor Eric Adams’s ...

By then, Happy, its 50-plus-year-old female Asian elephant, had not been seen by visitors in her outdoor enclosure in two weeks, and people were starting to notice. “Yo I’m hearing that Happy ...

Happy the elephant may be intelligent and deserving of compassion, but she cannot be considered a person being illegally confined to the Bronx Zoo, New York's top court ruled Tuesday. The 5-2 ...