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May 2, 2021

The law, theology ... and Happy the elephant

Court will decide if an elephant should have “personhood.”

Is an animal a person?

That’s the central question surrounding the fate of a 48-year-old female Asian elephant in the Bronx Zoo named Happy, a question that has enticed legal, moral and even theological debate.

Published in Canada