The Colorado high court ruled in favor of Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after an animal rights group alleged the park's elephants ...

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.

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

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 Colorado Supreme Court ruled that elephants do not have the same rights as humans. The ruling comes after the Nonhuman ...

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 a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but do not have the legal right to pursue their release since they aren't ...

Outrage erupted among animal welfare activists after Colorado courts ruled that five captive elephants could not petition for ...

Judges ruled a bid to free five elderly African elephants from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo was based on a law that only applied to ...

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 highest court in Colorado denied a claim made on behalf of five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, ruling that elephants do not have the same rights humans do.