Happy’s living space at the Bronx Zoo is separated by a fence from that of the zoo’s other elephant. The two elephants touch trunks, smell each other and communicate, Mary Dixon, a spokeswoman ...

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.

Happy the elephant cannot be legally considered a human and can be kept at the Bronx Zoo, New York’s highest court has ruled. The Nonhuman Rights Project had brought a case challenging the zoo ...

New York's highest court has ruled that Happy the Elephant is not a legal person and therefore not entitled to basic human rights. Tuesday morning, the State of New York Court of Appeals issued ...

Happy the elephant might soon receive a judicial visit, thanks to animal rights activists who continue to argue that the pachyderm is deeply depressed. Last October, the Nonhuman Rights Project ...

Happy, an Asian elephant, had been captured as a baby in the early 1970s and sold with six other calves to the Lion Country Safari in Southern California, which is now closed.

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 same rights as humans and ...