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 ...

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.

Federal wildlife authorities are searching for a person of interest in the stabbing of a baby elephant seal on an Oregon beach, leaving it injured with multiple wounds. The 225-pound pup was ...

“Because an elephant is not a person, the elephants here do not have standing to bring a habeas corpus claim,” Justice Maria ...

Bronx Zoo elephant named Happy isn’t a person, court rules, as group pursues similar case in California. Happy strolls inside the Bronx Zoo’s Asia habitat in 2018.

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 ...

In a Legal First, a Court Will Decide if an Elephant Deserves the Same Rights as a Person 13 minute read Happy, an elephant at New York's Bronx Zoo, in October 2018.

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 ...

D ENVER — “An elephant is not a person” and is not afforded the same liberties as a person under the Colorado Constitution, the Colorado Supreme Court decided Tuesday.

ALBANY, N.Y. — She has four limbs, expressive eyes and likes to stroll through greenery in New York City. Happy, by species, is an Asian elephant. But can she also be considered a p… ...

New York’s highest court has ruled that Happy the elephant is not a “person” as it tossed a lawsuit seeking to free the the 50-year-old Asian pachyderm from the Bronx Zoo.