(Photo Courtesy of the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium of its elephants Victoria and Zuri moving around)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) The Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP) has now filed a lawsuit against the Pittsburgh Zoo after its elephants Victoria and Zuri were transferred in October to an international conservation center where, according to the lawsuit, elephants are forcibly bred. The NHRP, with support from elephant cognition and behavior experts, is asking the Court of Common Pleas to issue an order to show cause, which would require the Pittsburgh Zoo to justify its imprisonment of Victoria and Zuri in a habeas corpus hearing. The NHRP is now in a waiting period before any further action can be taken.