Trailblazing Captive Animals Are Changing Human Laws
With recent success in Ecuador, the case for granting legal personhood to some captive animals is advancing all over the world. A huge case comes up May 18th in New York involving Happy, the elephant. "Happy" the elephant: captured from the wild, she has been held at the Bronx Zoo for almost half a century. Her case is now in the courts. Happy, [...]