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.

An Asian elephant named Happy that has been at the Bronx Zoo for more than 40 years will remain there after New York’s highest court ruled on Tuesday that she is not a person, in a legal sense ...

Meditations on loneliness with Happy the Elephant. Here, New York Magazine’s Molly Young goes to Bronx Zoo to seek the meaning of solitude from Happy, a 50-year-old Elephas maximus, who has ...

O n a sunny September afternoon, Happy is standing just a few feet away from the monorail at the Bronx Zoo. Her ears flap as she wraps her trunk around a fence that separates her from the slow ...

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 ...

Happy’s story began in the 1970s, when she and a group of six other elephant calves were captured, most likely in Thailand, and sold for about $800 a head to a California safari park.

Wise’s client, had she been there, would have been impossible to miss, because she is a 49-year-old Asian elephant named Happy currently living at the Bronx Zoo.

That’s the central question in a case that New York’s highest court considered Wednesday in a dispute over the living quarters of Happy, an Asian elephant at the Bronx Zoo.

Happy has lived at the zoo for 50 years. Happy and its companion Patty are pictured at Bronx Zoo in New York City in this undated handout image obtained by Reuters on May 18, 2022.