UnHappy Days?
On May 18, the New York Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Happy the Elephant’s stay in the Bronx Zoo in captive confinement. This is the first time that the highest court of an English-speaking jurisdiction will hear a habeas corpus brought on behalf of a non-human.
Happy is a “cognitively complex nonhuman animal” that should be freed from the Bronx Zoo and transferred to a sanctuary. Happy was the first elephant to pass a mirror self-recognition test.
-- Robbie Sequeira, Bronx Times,
photograph taken by Gigi Glendenning
UnHappy Days?
On May 18, the New York Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Happy the Elephant’s stay in the Bronx Zoo in captive confinement. This is the first time that the highest court of an English-speaking jurisdiction will hear a habeas corpus brought on behalf of a non-human.
Happy is a “cognitively complex nonhuman animal” that should be freed from the Bronx Zoo and transferred to a sanctuary. Happy was the first elephant to pass a mirror self-recognition test.
-- Robbie Sequeira, Bronx Times,
photograph taken by Gigi Glendenning