Elephants are not human, Colorado high court rules for zoo in animal rights group's suit The Nonhuman Rights Project alleged the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo kept five elderly African elephants named ...

Colorado's highest court has ruled in favor of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after it was sued by an animal rights group over the alleged treatment of elephants at the Colorado Springs facility. The ...

The Colorado Supreme Court will consider whether animals are entitled to legal rights under federal law due to a Nonhuman Rights Project lawsuit over elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

A court has rejected the notion that elephants are people, upholding a zoo's right to keep the animals after a yearslong legal scrap.

Five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo may be “majestic” but do not have the legal right to pursue their release since they aren't human. That was the ruling Tuesday from Colorado’s ...

Activists with the Nonhuman Rights Project sued the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo last summer on behalf of the facility’s five elephants: Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo.

The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo says moving the elephants and potentially placing them with new animals would be cruel at their age, potentially causing them unnecessary stress.

Activists with the Nonhuman Rights Project sued the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo last summer on behalf of the facility’s five elephants: Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo. The project’s ...

The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs has attracted the ire of the national activist group In Defense of Animals (IDA), which put the zoo on its annual Ten Worst Zoos for Elephants in ...

On Thursday, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo will be in front of the Colorado Supreme Court arguing if the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s elephants should be turned over to an animal sanctuary.

An animal rights group has asked the court to decide whether five elephants that have lived at the same Colorado zoo for decades are considered persons under the law.

The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo says moving the elephants and potentially placing them with new animals would be cruel at their age, potentially causing them unnecessary stress.