As the wise old elephant wandered through the savanna of Kenya, its wrinkled trunk lifted and swayed with a grace earned through decades of life experience. The sun hovered high in the sky ...

Virginia Morell is the author of "Animal Wise: How We Know Animals Think and Feel." She is on Twitter. Updated March 6, 2015, 7:20 PM Since Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced ...

Several chapters into Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables, zoologist and science writer Jo Wimpenny explains that, as a very young girl, she sometimes wanted to be a dog.

For this reason, the elephant is constantly shaking its head around. The lion finds it hard to believe that such a large animal should be afraid of such a small one, and thereby realises its own ...

Forty-seven years ago, the Asian elephant now known as Happy was one of seven calves captured—probably in Thailand, but details are hazy—and sent to the United States. She spent five years at ...

"Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood follows the battle to move Happy, a 50-year-old Asian elephant, from the Bronx Zoo to sanctuary… ...

Wise has been canny about framing his current case around a single elephant—not all elephants or all sentient animals. That being said, he admits that “it only takes one.” ...

The NhRP knows of a handful of other solitary elephants in the U.S., but Wise says they chose Happy partly because in 2005 she became the first elephant to pass the mirror test for animal ...

The elephant Minnie in October at the Big E in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Over 1,200 people have signed an online petition to ban wild animal acts at the Big E. (Ben James/NEPR) ...

As an attorney, Steven Wise fought for personhood rights for his clients, who were captive chimps, elephants and whales. You may scoff at some of his arguments, writes Rich Barlow, but Wise ...

When you’re talking about an animal like Happy, an autonomous elephant, ... Steven Wise, our co-author, and the groundbreaking cases brought by the NhRP resonated with us.