Elephant ‘imprisoned’ in zoo getting her day in court in landmark animal rights case

The New York Court of Appeals agreed to hear the habeas corpus case of Happy, an Asian elephant that has lived mostly alone at Bronx Zoo (Pictures: PIX11/Nonhuman Rights Project)Happy the elephant, who has been apparently unhappily ‘imprisoned’ at a zoo, will have her day in the highest court in New York in what could be a landmark animal rights case.The New York Court of Appeals on Tuesday agreed to hear the habeas corpus case of Happy, an Asian elephant that has lived mostly alone