Bronx Zoo blasts claim that Happy the elephant is a person

Shari Logan, Kate Sheehy
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:51:48 -0400

Happy the elephant shouldn’t plan on packing her trunks just yet. Animal rights activists, appearing in Bronx court Monday, argued that the Bronx Zoo pachyderm is an “autonomous being” whose “liberty is being violated” by her cramped lonely quarters, and they want her moved to a sanctuary. But lawyers for the zoo shot back that...