Where’s Happy? The mystery surrounding Bronx Zoo’s famous elephant

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. We demand you immediately investigate now!” “Yo I’m hearing that Happy theElephant from the Bronx Zoo HAS BEEN MISSING for over a month!?! Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the city’s Guardian Angels, posted a video outside the zoo last month urging his 87,000 followers to “Save Happy the Elephant!” According to the New York Times, no visitor has set eyes on the New York City zoo’s hefty star in over two months. “Nothing is wrong with Happy,” read the press statement, which went on to explain that Happy is “fine and doing well.” One of the two Asian elephants at the zoo, Happy and her enclosure-mate, Patty, are both given the chance to choose where they spend each day within their enclosure, which visitors can see from the park’s monorail, the zoo said. Happy was legally found unable to sue under habeas corpus, on account of not being a human, although Chief Judge Janet DiFiore wrote at the time that “no one disputes that elephants are intelligent beings deserving of proper care and compassion.” The case was brought forward bythe Nonhuman Rights Project, which advocates for animals to be given “enforceable legal rights.”