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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

A bid to free five elephants from a Colorado zoo has been rejected after a court ruled elephants are not people. An animal rights group argued Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo were effectively ...

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

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that five elephants at a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to […] The post These Elephants Were Barred From Suing To Leave Their Zoo appeared first on Chip ...

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

The Colorado court dismissed the case, stating that elephants cannot file a writ of habeas corpus because they are not human. In this unanimous ruling, the court explained that the writ of habeas ...

A lawsuit arguing elephants should be freed from a zoo has failed in court, with the judge ruling that "majestic" mammals do ...

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