The question of where the 49-year-old elephant, Happy, should live—in the Bronx Zoo or at a 2,500-acre sanctuary in Tennessee—is intertwined with the history of the age-old writ of habeas corpus, her advocates are arguing as her case comes to life again in the New York courts.

Her advocates now include Harvard Law professor and constitutional scholar, Laurence Tribe, along with a group of 12 American and Canadian philosophers. Her primary benefactor and counsel of record is the Nonhuman Rights Project, a Florida-based nonprofit that defends “nonhuman animals” and that, for three years now, has argued in state court that Happy can only be happy if she is sent to the sanctuary, where she can bond with other elephants and roam with them for miles a day.

Laurence Tribe Laurence Tribe (Courtesy photo: Matthew Teuten)

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