Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but, since they’re not human, they do not have the legal right to pursue their release, Colorado’s highest court said Tuesday.

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

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 ...

The court rejected a case to send five African elephants to a sanctuary, saying they have no legal right to demand release ...

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

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

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 ...