The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday denied releasing five elderly elephants from a local zoo, saying that the animals may be ‘majestic’ but they are not humans. It ruled that the elephants were not ...

Five wild-born elephants that have long inhabited a 2-acre plot in a southern Colorado zoo will not be able to pursue their own release, the state’s highest court ruled this week. Responding to a ...

Five elephants at Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain Zoo became the focus of a legal battle over their right to freedom. Animal ...

Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state’s highest court said the animals have no ...

C alifornia bees may be fish, but Colorado elephants are not people. At least, that’s the ruling of the state’s Supreme Court, who this week decreed that five elephants currently held at the Cheyenne ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. ( KKTV /Gray News) - The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that elephants do not have the same rights as ...

"Because an elephant is not a person, the elephants here do not have standing to bring a habeas corpus claim," the court ruled ...

The group argued that elephants at Colorado Zoo showed signs of brain damage as the place was essentially a "prison" for such ...

Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state's highest court said the animals have no ...

A Colorado court rejected efforts to free five elephants using a legal process for human detainees, writing that it “boils ...

A bid to free five elephants from a Colorado zoo has been rejected after a court ruled elephants are not people.

A bid to get five elephants released from a US zoo has failed after judges ruled the animals are not people so laws on ...