Tell Happy the elephant that he needs to move to California where he can be anything he wants.
After all, if California recognizes bumblebees as fish, Happy can take his choice of life forms.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.sacbee.com/news/california/article262045952.html
I looked that case up. What happened was that, back in 1970 when the law was written, the California legislature, in its wisdom, inserted a typographic error in this law which changed “vertrebrae” to “invertebrae”. So every case ruling on this law requires that the judges write flaming nonsense to avoid ruling that the law is useless because the legislature screwed up.