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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A court has rejected the notion that elephants are people, upholding a zoo's right to keep the animals after a yearslong legal scrap.

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.

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 ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – This week, representatives from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo will appear before the Colorado Supreme Court to defend their care of five elephants in a case that ...

An animal rights group had sought to have the African elephants, Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo, freed from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and moved to an elephant sanctuary, citing a legal process ...

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 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.

The Nonhuman Rights Project stands in front of the Colorado Supreme Court Thursday to determine the outcome of five elephants in the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.