Pachyderms are persons too, lawyers say in court case over Happy, a 48-year-old Bronx Zoo elephant

She’s alone and confined — but has as much a right to happiness as a pachyderm in the wild, insist lawyers purporting to represent Happy, a Bronx Zoo elephant.

Zookeepers stomp on Happy’s rights by by refusing to release her to a proper animal sanctuary, lawyer Steven Wise of the Nonhuman Rights...

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