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.

Everyone needs a little self-care sometimes, right? Zookeepers at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo gave their bear Emmett a ...

The high court rejected arguments that elephants qualify as “persons” under state law and suggested animal advocates turn to ...

Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there after the state's Supreme Court ruled they don't have the ...

Elephants are highly intelligent animals that are adept at communication, using as many as 47 different call types and more ...

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled against the release of five African elephants from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, concluding ...

CPW emphasized the importance of keeping trash secure year-round in case a particularly active bear strolls by.

The court rejected a case to send five African elephants to a sanctuary, saying they have no legal right to demand release ...

An animal rights group called the Nonhuman Rights Project had been trying to get five elephants freed from the Cheyenne ...

Five wild-born elephants that have long inhabited a 2-acre plot in a southern Colorado zoo will not be able to pursue their ...

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 ...

Five elephants at Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain Zoo became the focus of a legal battle over their right to freedom. Animal ...