An effort to free the elephant thought to be illegally confined in the Bronx Zoo was rejected by New York’s top court.
Bronx Zoo elephant"Happy" feeds inside the zoo's Asia habitat in New York.from the Bronx Zoo, ruling in a closely watched case that she does not meet the definition of a “person” who is being illegally confined.
The zoo and its supporters warned that a win for advocates at the Nonhuman Rights Project could open the door to more legal actions on behalf of animals, including pets and other species in zoos.The court’s majority echoed that point. The advocates at the Nonhuman Rights Project argued that Happy is an autonomous, cognitively complex elephant worthy of the right reserved in law for “a person.”
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