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

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 ...

"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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists believe another animal should be added to that list: the elephant. Testing has uncovered that these massive animals may have more going on inside their brains than humans ever considered.

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 ...

Elephants are not people, the top court in the US state of Colorado has ruled. In a unanimous judgment, the Colorado Supreme ...

But the Colorado Supreme Court wasn’t having it. In a ruling that boiled down to “an elephant is not a person”, the court ...

美国动物保护人士为科罗拉多州一间动物园饲养的5头大象争取自由，向法院提出诉讼，指大象行动和社交自由被剥夺，要求发出「人身」保护令。法院21日因「大象不是人」，裁定驳回请求。