New York (AFP) – As intelligent as she is, Happy the elephant doesn’t meet the definition of a “person” and is therefore not being illegally confined in the Bronx Zoo, New York’s top court ruled Tuesday in a closely watched case for animal rights. The state’s Court of Appeals 5-2 verdict against the habeas corpus proceeding filed by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) means Happy will remain in her one-acre lot, where she has lived for 45 years, rather than moving to a much larger sanctuary. NRP had contended Asian elephant, who was born in the wild in 1971, is an “extraordinarily cognitively co…