The Colorado high court ruled in favor of Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after an animal rights group alleged the park's elephants ...

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

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

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. ( KKTV /Gray News) - The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that elephants do not have the same rights as ...

Five elephants at a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their release because they are not human, according to ...

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

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

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

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.

On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that elephants do not have the same rights as humans after the Nonhuman Rights ...

Outrage erupted among animal welfare activists after Colorado courts ruled that five captive elephants could not petition for ...

Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but, since they’re not human, they do not have the legal right to pursue ...