Living alone in the New York zoo has been quite a tough time for Happy, the elephant.
Her journey to New York happened in the year 1970 with six other elephant calves all the way from Thailand.
After she reached New York she was quite happy here along with the company of Grumpy. Both these elephants spent 25 years together at the Bronx Zoo.
But, the happiness came to an end all at once to Happy when her friend Grumpy was put to sleep 13 years ago. She had to spend all her life alone in the zoo after Grumpy left her.
However, there are a lot of campaigns conducted to release Happy from the zoo and let her free in the animal sanctuary to make her feel good.
Living in isolation can depress Happy even more hence, the activists are conducting a lot o campaigns to free Happy and ensure that she spends the rest of her life peacefully.
After the tweet from Yashar Ali went viral, Happy caught even more attention from across the world.
He mentioned on his twitter thread about how two sanctuaries in the USA are eager to take in Happy and give her the space to stroll around freely amongst with the other giant creatures of her kind.
However, the Bronx Zoo director Jim Breheny is not ready to send Happy to the Sanctuary as proposed by the activists. Yashar also mentioned the two major reasons as to why Happy has been captivated at the Bronx Zoo.
He states that having elephants in the zoo can generate a lot of revenue. Also, if the director of the Bronx Zoo gives up on Happy, the activists may also force upon the other animals to be sent to the sanctuary as well.
He also mentioned that captivating elephants for profits can make them feel completely depressed because elephants always choose to be in herds and they are social in nature.
Hence, sending Happy to a sanctuary is always a better choice. Isolating her can ruin her state of mind and can make her sad.
Generally, when the female elephants are in the wild they are usually raised by their family members like siblings, aunts and cousins and they continue to love with them throughout their life.
Hence, it is always great to release them amongst the other elephants for their well-being. Happy also has a great sense of self-awareness because after the gorillas and the dolphins she was the only creature to pass the mirror self-recognition test.
So don’t you think you should also be one of those people amongst the other petition signers at change.org ad help Happy get released into her natural habitat.
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