Elephants trumpeted, touched trunks and flapped their oversized ears upon reuniting with their herd after a complex, five-day ...

Musth, a word derived from the Hindi word “mast,” meaning intoxicated, is a periodic condition experienced by male elephants, characterized by highly aggressive behavior and a significant increase in ...

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.

Elephant musth is a periodic condition in male elephants characterised by heightened testosterone levels, increased aggression, and the secretion of a thick, pungent fluid from their temporal glands.

The decision to relocate the zoo's last two Asian elephants, Permai and the male Putra Mas, was announced in 2018 — with it set to happen after the death of matriarch Tricia, which occurred in 2022.

Molly Condit On Tuesday, Colorado’s highest court ruled that five elderly African elephants do not have legal standing to sue to leave a local zoo, because they aren’t human. The Supreme Court ...

That's the finding of the Colorado Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled against an animal rights group's lawsuit alleging a local zoo mistreated its elephants and caused them chronic frustration ...

Last October, the group sued the zoo over the welfare of its five elephants: Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo. The NhRP was claiming habeas corpus as the elephants' next friend. This term is ...