The high court rejected arguments that elephants qualify as “persons” under state law and suggested animal advocates turn to ...

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled in a 6-0 decision that African elephants Jambo, Kimba, LouLou, Lucky and Missy cannot ...

Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there after the state's Supreme Court ruled they don't have the ...

Elephants are highly intelligent animals that are adept at communication, using as many as 47 different call types and more ...

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled against the release of five African elephants from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, concluding ...

Colorado’s highest court ruled that five elderly African elephants do not have legal standing to sue to leave a local zoo, because they aren’t human. The Supreme Court of the state ruled 6-0 against ...

An animal rights group called the Nonhuman Rights Project had been trying to get five elephants freed from the Cheyenne ...

Five wild-born elephants that have long inhabited a 2-acre plot in a southern Colorado zoo will not be able to pursue their ...

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

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.

The Colorado Supreme Court has rejected the idea that elephants are entitled to the same rights as humans. Colorado law ...

The ruling comes after the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a lawsuit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo over the conditions the ...