After more than four decades in captivity, Happy the Elephant died without the family, freedom, and social bonds that define an elephant’s life in the wild. The Bronx Zoo is complicit in her tragedy.
Elephants are just the best and my heart is broken 💔😢 to hear how she was neglected and treated so terribly by both parties involved!! Spread this everywhere!!! RIP sweet Happy 😢💔
We are witnessing in real time how humans can treat other humans so what makes you think they will treat animals with the respect and love they deserve? Right this minute, we are a sad excuse of the same animal kingdom from which Happy came. We keep proving over and over again that we don’t all the time deserve to be at the top of this particular kingdom.
We aren't at the top; we just think we are. And we are torturing others of our species all the time. Of course, elephants in their wisdom exclude fully grown males from their society. That reduces the burden on the species. MalesBehavingBadly are responsible for nearly all the torture, mayhem, and murder in the world. Too bad we can't send them off to make trouble in their own little world.
Poor Happy! Like all the other animals in the zoo, she was chosen to teach our negligent and self-centred species. It is not easy to be a teacher. It was not a calling she chose. But can you imagine how much even worse our species would be, if we never received the teaching that these strange intelligences give us. Even a dog or cat can teach us to reach a little wider.
The excuses of the administrators for not letting her go to a sanctuary were shocking but not surprising. Of course it is true that visitors really want to see an elephant, and if they stay there for a while, the lesson of her being and intelligence would enter them. But it was time for her to retire (while still young enough to have some babies). These people would have worked their grandmothers to death!
I love elephants and have always felt an affinity. Reading this hurts my heart. RIP Happy.
Elephants are just the best and my heart is broken 💔😢 to hear how she was neglected and treated so terribly by both parties involved!! Spread this everywhere!!! RIP sweet Happy 😢💔
We are witnessing in real time how humans can treat other humans so what makes you think they will treat animals with the respect and love they deserve? Right this minute, we are a sad excuse of the same animal kingdom from which Happy came. We keep proving over and over again that we don’t all the time deserve to be at the top of this particular kingdom.
We aren't at the top; we just think we are. And we are torturing others of our species all the time. Of course, elephants in their wisdom exclude fully grown males from their society. That reduces the burden on the species. MalesBehavingBadly are responsible for nearly all the torture, mayhem, and murder in the world. Too bad we can't send them off to make trouble in their own little world.
Yashir,
Thank you for your courage honesty and compassion reporting truth to power with evidence. We are in this together. No Kings.
Peace.
Christopher and family in Upstate SC
RIP Happy.
She is finally free. RIP
Poor Happy! Like all the other animals in the zoo, she was chosen to teach our negligent and self-centred species. It is not easy to be a teacher. It was not a calling she chose. But can you imagine how much even worse our species would be, if we never received the teaching that these strange intelligences give us. Even a dog or cat can teach us to reach a little wider.
The excuses of the administrators for not letting her go to a sanctuary were shocking but not surprising. Of course it is true that visitors really want to see an elephant, and if they stay there for a while, the lesson of her being and intelligence would enter them. But it was time for her to retire (while still young enough to have some babies). These people would have worked their grandmothers to death!