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Bronx Zoo euthanizes Happy the elephant, known for self-awareness study

Happy, an Asian elephant at the Bronx Zoo, has been euthanized at age 55 due to age-related conditions and inoperable tumors. She was known for her participation in a 2005 study demonstrating elephant self-awareness through mirror recognition. Happy lived alone for the last 20 years of her life after her last companion died in 2006, a situation that drew the attention of animal rights activists who sought her release. AI

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Bronx Zoo euthanizes Happy the elephant, known for self-awareness study

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  1. Fortune TIER_1 English(EN) · Jennifer Peltz, The Associated Press ·

    Happy the Elephant recognized herself in a mirror. She spent her last 20 years alone

    She passed a self-awareness test that almost no animal can. Then courts decided that wasn't enough to make her a person. She died at 55.