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What We’re Asking for in Our Fight to #FreeHappy
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Brief Filed with New York’s Highest Court in Landmark Elephant Rights Case
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What’s Coming Up in the Legal Fight to #FreeHappy
![Today a group of philosophers submitted an amicus curiae brief in support of the NhRP's chimpanzee rights cases on behalf of Tommy and Kiko.](https://www.nonhumanrights.org/wp-content/uploads/Tommy-in-cage-PH-Films-768x432.jpg)
Where is Tommy the Chimp?
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Palliative Animal Law
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Meditations on loneliness with the Bronx Zoo’s 50-year-old Elephas maximus
![Happy the elephant wraps her trunk around the fencing of her enclosure in the Bronx Zoo's elephant exhibit.](https://www.nonhumanrights.org/wp-content/uploads/Happy-3045-768x512.jpg)
Animal Law Professors Support New York Elephant Rights Case
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Recap of Oral Arguments in Happy’s Elephant Rights Case
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