As per the National Geographic report, Steven Wise, NhRP’s founder and president, argued that Happy should be sent to an accredited sanctuary to be with other elephants in a larger, more natural-setting than her current one-acre enclosure, where she lives alone.Įven though there are a handful of solitary elephants in the US, the group decided to represent Happy because of her cognitive abilities. In its arguments, NhRP has maintained that, kept inside the zoo, Happy is a “depressed elephant”.
This was the highest court an animal rights case has reached in the United States. The group had already argued this before three other courts on Happy’s behalf. The animal rights group argued that Happy should be recognised as a legal person and sent to a sanctuary. She has lived at the Bronx Zoo since 1977.Īccording to the National Geographic, last year, the New York Court of Appeals agreed to hear the case brought by the Nonhuman Rights Project, a Florida-based animal civil rights organization. Happy was born in the wild in Thailand in the 1970s, captured and brought to the US when she was about one. Happy the elephant and the case to prove her human
In the bizarre case that walked a tightrope between the boundaries of human and animal rights, the long-time resident of the Bronx Zoo was argued to be illegally confined and needed to be released to an elephant sanctuary.Īccording to the BBC, the state's highest court voted 5-2 to reject an animal rights group's argument that Happy was being illegally confined at the zoo. In a closely watched case, New York’s top court has ruled that Happy the elephant cannot be considered a person.
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