An elephant named Happy is pictured in the Bronx Zoo, in New York City, in this undated social media photo. Gigi Glendinning via Reuters, FILE.

Meditations on loneliness with Happy the Elephant. Here, New York Magazine’s Molly Young goes to Bronx Zoo to seek the meaning of solitude from Happy, a 50-year-old Elephas maximus, who has ...

Bronx Zoo elephant "Happy" strolls inside the zoo's Asia Habitat in New York. Bebeto Matthews / AP file. Nov. 28, 2020, 8:47 AM EST. By Adam Larson.

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 ...

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.

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. The 5-2 ...