Year 5 Vocab

According to the article, what did they want for Happy the elephant?

"Happy lives at New York’s Bronx Zoo and the zoo and its supporters warned that a win for advocates* at the Nonhuman Rights Project could open the door to more legal actions on behalf of animals, including pets, farm animals and other species in zoos."

What does "advocates" mean in this sentence?

"the law was intended to protect the liberty of human beings and did not apply to a non-human animal like Happy."

What does "liberty" mean in this sentence

'Extending the right to Happy to challenge her confinement at a zoo “would have an enormous destabilising impact on modern society,” the ruling said.'

Why didn't they want to give Happy liberty?

“Followed to its logical conclusion, such a determination would call into question the very premises* underlying pet ownership, the use of service animals, and the enlistment* of animals in other forms of work,” read the decision.

What does the word "premises" mean?

"Judges Rowan Wilson and Janney Rivera were in favour of extending these human rights to Happy and wrote that being an animal did not prevent Happy from having legal rights."

Why did Judge Rowan Wilson and Janney Rivera want Happy to have legal rights?

“Her captivity is inherently* unjust and inhumane,” she wrote.

What does "inhumane" mean?

Put the words "compassion" and "advocates" in a sentence

Put the words "dispute" and "affront" in a sentence

Put the words "premises" and "diminished" in one sentence