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 legal right to demand their release because they are not humans ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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