Happy the Elephant, Incarcerated?
from Blackletter
Happy the elephant made history on Tuesday. She 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. In a closely watched case that tested the boundaries of applying human rights to animals, a writ of habeas corpus is intended to protect the liberty of human beings and does not apply to a nonhuman animal like Happy.
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