The ruling comes after a similar case in New York in 2022, when a court also ruled against an elephant named Happy at the Bronx Zoo. Both cases were brought by Nonhuman Rights Project, an animal ...

An earlier bid by NRP to free an elephant named Happy from New York's Bronx Zoo was rejected after the court judged she was not legally a person.

A New York court reached a similar decision over an Asian elephant at the Bronx Zoo named Happy in 2022, in another case brought by the animal rights group. Two New York judges expressed a ...

the Court of Appeals, that another aged elephant, Happy, had to remain at New York City's Bronx Zoo. An animal rights non-profit, Nonhuman Rights Project, brought both cases on the elephants ...