California 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 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 ...

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.

The Colorado Supreme Court has rejected the idea that elephants are entitled to the same rights as humans. Colorado law ...

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

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

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

Judges ruled a bid to free five elderly African elephants from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo was based on a law that only applied to ...

On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that five wild-born zoo elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo do not have a right to liberty.

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

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