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.

New York NY court decides elephant not a person, in case involving Bronx Zoo Activists sued for Happy to receive personhood in order to remove her from an isolated enclosure 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.

For much of her life, Happy did have a partner—Grumpy, another Asian elephant who was captured along with five other calves in the 1970s, and eventually landed with Happy in the Bronx.

Animal rights Happy is an Asian elephant who was captured as a baby in the early 1970s and sold along with six other calves to the now-closed Lion Country Safari in Southern California.

Correction: A previous version of this article included incorrect details of the elephant’s environment at the zoo. The article has been corrected. For most of her life, Happy the elephant has ...

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 planned endorsement ...

Happy has lived at the Bronx Zoo for 45 years. The state Court of Appeals heard arguments over whether she should be released through a habeas corpus proceeding, which is a way for people to ...

The group said that in 2005, Happy became the first elephant to pass a self-awareness indicator test, repeatedly touching a white “X” on her forehead as she looked into a large mirror.

Happy arrived at the Bronx Zoo in 1977 with fellow elephant Grumpy, who was fatally injured in a 2002 confrontation with two other elephants. Happy now lives in an enclosure adjacent to the zoo's ...