{"id":757225,"date":"2019-06-05T07:59:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757225"},"modified":"2019-06-05T07:59:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T11:59:50","slug":"bronx-zoo-protesters-demand-release-of-happy-the-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757225","title":{"rendered":"Bronx Zoo protesters demand release of Happy the elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Happy has lived alone for 13 years in her enclosure. This despite the species being highly social and Happy having become as the first elephant to show self-recognition. <\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KRISTINA NARIZHNAYA:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Free Happy the elephant! That was the cry from about 100 animal rights activist who turned up at the Bronx Zoo Saturday to demand the release of the zoo\u2019s beloved but isolated pachyderm. Chanting \u201cHappy is not happy!\u201d and \u201cNo excuse for animal abuse!\u201d the crowd gathered to show support for an ongoing lawsuit demanding the transfer of the 47-year-old female to a wildlife preserve.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cIt\u2019s inappropriate to keep animals like this,\u201d said Kevin Schneider, who heads the Nonhuman Rights Project, which sued the zoo last year after discovering that Happy had lived alone and had no contact with the zoo\u2019s two other female elephants, Patty and Maxine&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>This despite the species being highly social and Happy having become a research star as the first elephant to show self-recognition. \u201cHappy has lived alone for 13 years in her enclosure. It\u2019s wrong to treat a cognitive complex being as a thing,\u201d said Schneider. \u201cWe want to send a message to the zoo and the courts that this is an issue they should take seriously&#8221;.&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/06\/01\/bronx-zoo-protesters-demand-release-of-happy-the-elephant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9AKxHOK29eU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KRISTINA NARIZHNAYA: &#8216;Free Happy the elephant! That was the cry from about 100 animal rights activist who turned up at the Bronx Zoo Saturday to demand the release of the zoo\u2019s beloved but isolated pachyderm. Chanting \u201cHappy is not happy!\u201d and \u201cNo excuse for animal abuse!\u201d the crowd gathered to show support for an ongoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":757226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,23,25],"tags":[27,28,30,35],"class_list":["post-757225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-entertainment","tag-exploitation","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757227,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757225\/revisions\/757227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/757226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}