New York’s top court has rejected an effort to free Happy the elephant from the Bronx Zoo
FILE - Bronx Zoo elephant"Happy" strolls in a habitat inside the zoo's Asia display, Tuesday Oct. 2, 2018, in New York. A legal fight to release Happy the elephant from the Bronx Zoo after 45 years will be argued Wednesday, May 18, 2022, before New York's highest court in a closely watched case over whether a basic right for people can be extended to an animal. ALBANY, N.Y.
The majority decision written by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore said that “while no one disputes that elephants are intelligent beings deserving of proper care and compassion,” a writ of habeas corpus is intended to protect the liberty of human beings and does not apply to a nonhuman animal like Happy. 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.”
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