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

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 ...

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that five elephants at a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to […] The post These Elephants Were Barred From Suing To Leave Their Zoo appeared first on Chip ...

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 ...

The group argued that elephants at Colorado Zoo showed signs of brain damage as the place was essentially a "prison" for such ...

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.

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

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.

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