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 ...

Happy the elephant cannot be legally considered a human and can be kept at the Bronx Zoo, New York’s highest court has ruled. The Nonhuman Rights Project had brought a case challenging the zoo ...

Happy’s story began in the 1970s, when she and a group of six other elephant calves were captured, most likely in Thailand, and sold for about $800 a head to a California safari park.