Five wild-born elephants that have long inhabited a 2-acre plot in a southern Colorado zoo will not be able to pursue their own release, the state’s highest court ruled this week. Responding to a ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The state supreme court on Tuesday said the habeas corpus law does only just that: grants people that ability, which the elephants are not.

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 ...

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 ...