A Florida-based animal rights group has filed a second habeas corpus petition on behalf of three elephants living in a Goshen petting zoo, arguing the animals are autonomous beings and have the right to bodily liberty. The Nonhuman Rights Project is seeking to remove Beulah, Minnie and Karen from the zoo and relocate them to a California-based sanctuary.

Attorney Steven Wise, founder of the animal rights nonprofit, told the Connecticut Law Tribune Monday that Litchfield Superior Court Judge James Bentivegna was wrong when he ruled in late February that the group’s first petition for common-law writ of habeas corpus seeking the release of the elephants was “wholly frivolous.”