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Court Rules Bronx Zoo Elephant Named Happy Isn’t Legally A Person
TheBlast via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn elephant named Happy has caused quite the stir online as an animal rights group called the...
Happy the elephant is not a person, court rules
ABC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA yearslong legal attempt to get Happy, an elephant residing at the Bronx Zoo, transferred to an elephant sanctuary failed Tuesday when New York's...
California city becomes first in nation to recognize legal rights of nonhuman animals
KREX articles via Yahoo News· 8 months ago(KTLA) – The California city of Ojai is now the first city in America to recognize the legal rights...
Nicholas Goldberg: Are animals entitled to basic legal rights just like people?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHappy, a nearly 50-year-old Asian elephant at the Bronx Zoo, was the subject of a four-year-long...
Happy the elephant at Bronx Zoo is not a person, New York’s top court rules
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoALBANY, N.Y. — Elephants are not human beings with constitutional rights, the New York State Court...
Opinion: Why shouldn't elephants have rights? They're intelligent beings who can feel joy and sorrow
LA Times via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThere's a petition to release elephants from the Fresno Chaffee Zoo, and Ojai recently became the...
Bronx Zoo elephant named Happy isn't a person, court rules
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHappy the elephant may be intelligent and deserving of compassion, but she cannot be considered a...
Activists say an elephant at the Bronx Zoo is self-aware and shouldn't live in a 'one-acre prison.'...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHappy the elephant was captured from the wild in 1977 and has been living in the Bronx Zoo since...
Are elephants, including pregnant ones, imprisoned at Chaffee Zoo? Lawsuit says yes
Fresno Bee via Yahoo News· 9 months agoFresno Chaffee Zoo celebrated World Elephant Day earlier this month by announcing not one, but two,...
Should animals be considered ‘citizens’ like people? Ethical debate is raging on
Fresno Bee McClatchy via AOL· 1 year agoDo animals have rights? This is an interesting topic to consider on Human Rights Day, which falls on...