The court's 6-0 decision means Jambo, Kimba, LouLou, Lucky, and Missy will remain at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. This follows a similar 2022 ruling in New York that kept an elephant ...

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled against the release of five African elephants from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, concluding that elephants are not legally recognized as people and, therefore, do not ...

The judgment by Colorado's highest court follows a similar court verdict in New York in 2022 when an elephant named Happy at the Bronx Zoo was also not allowed to escape. Meanwhile, the Colorado ...

It followed a similar decision in 2022 by New York state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, that another aged elephant, Happy, had to remain at New York City's Bronx Zoo. An animal rights non ...

The zoo argued moving the elephants and potentially placing them with new animals would be cruel at their age, possibly causing unnecessary stress. Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” ...

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.Video above ...

The ruling comes after a similar case in New York in 2022, when a court also ruled against an elephant named Happy at the Bronx Zoo. Both cases were brought by Nonhuman Rights Project, an animal ...

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo shows elephants Kimba, front, and Lucky, back, at the Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Cheyenne Mountain Zoo via AP, File) ...