Happy gave researchers a breakthrough insight into elephant intelligence, and later found herself at the center of a landmark animal rights case.
Happy gave researchers a breakthrough insight into elephant intelligence, and later found herself at the center of a landmark animal rights case.Open
Activists had sued in a bid to secure her the fundamental human right to bodily liberty. Zoo officials said she was well cared for and called the lawsuit frivolous.
Happy, a Bronx Zoo elephant who gave researchers new insight into the animal's behavior and became the crux of a closely watched animal rights case, has been euthanized at age 55.
He made his way to New York on a ship from England and then found himself stuck in quarantine at the Bronx Zoo for months.
The fox is convalescing at the Bronx Zoo after an unlikely 3,600-mile sea crossing from England to the Port of New York and New Jersey.