Five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo may be “majestic” but do not have the legal right to pursue their release since they aren't human. That was the ruling Tuesday from Colorado’s ...

Elephants are not human, Colorado high court rules for zoo in animal rights group's suit The Nonhuman Rights Project alleged the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo kept five elderly African elephants named ...

Elephants allowed to remain at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo following Colorado Supreme Court ruling 01:31. Colorado's highest court has ruled in favor of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after it was sued by an ...

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs do not have the legal right to pursue their release because they are not human.

Activists with the Nonhuman Rights Project sued the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo last summer on behalf of the facility’s five elephants: Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo. The project’s ...

For the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, the ruling represents a victory that reinforces its care practices for the elephants, which it argues are tailored to their specific needs as aging animals ...

On Tuesday, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo released a response that called the nonprofit’s petition “frivolous” and asserted that the elephants — which were all born in the wild between 40 and ...

Rulings in favor of the animals would have allowed lawyers for both Happy and the elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs — Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo — to pursue ...

On Thursday, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo will be in front of the Colorado Supreme Court arguing if the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s elephants should be turned over to an animal sanctuary.

The lawsuit, which claims that the five elephants held at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo are suffering in captivity, aims to have the animals placed in a wildlife sanctuary with more room to roam.

The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo says moving the elephants and potentially placing them with new animals would be cruel at their age, possibly causing unnecessary stress.

The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo says moving the elephants and potentially placing them with new animals would be cruel at their age, possibly causing unnecessary stress.