DENVER — Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but, since they’re not human, they do not have the legal right to pursue their release, Colorado’s highest court said Tuesday.

DENVER (KDVR) — “An elephant is not a person” and is not afforded the same liberties as a person under the Colorado Constitution, the Colorado Supreme Court decided Tuesday. The state’s ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo ... major or minor concern reported – including in the strenuous review of our elephant care program. This is not the first time the Nonhuman Rights Project has sued ...

Having failed twice in New York to have chimps and then an elephant named Happy declared persons, the NonHuman Rights Project moved its effort to Colorado seeking writs of habeas corpus to be ...

The ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court follows a similar court defeat in New York in 2022 for an elephant named Happy at the Bronx Zoo in a case brought by an animal rights group. Rulings in ...

PETALING JAYA – An elephant, standing about one-storey-tall, made an unexpected appearance in Taman Seri Impian, Kluang, Johor. In a 40-second video shared on the Kluang Hari Ini social media ...

That's the finding of the Colorado Supreme Court ... group wanted the elephants to be transferred to a “suitable elephant sanctuary," according to the suit. The group cited habeas corpus ...

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled 6-0 in favor of an earlier district court decision, saying that from a legal standpoint, the question “boils down to whether an elephant is a person.” ...

Colorado's highest court has ruled in favor of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after it was sued by an animal rights group over the alleged treatment of elephants at the Colorado Springs facility. The ...

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 ...