As an elephant biologist, I have spent years observing elephants in the wild. I recently visited the elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs and the contrast was extreme.

A legal battle between Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and an animal rights organization is set to go before the Colorado Supreme Court on Thursday. The high court will hear oral arguments from the Colorado ...

An elephant paces in an outdoor enclosure at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Molly Condit An attorney for the zoo told CBS News Colorado that it takes care of the elephants and meets their needs.

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 ...

The district court decision and any potential appeal would only apply to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo elephants, Davis said. Later cases would have to come forward with their own facts and wouldn’t ...

An animal rights group’s lawsuit accusing Cheyenne Mountain Zoo of illegally confining and neglecting its five elderly African elephants, and demanding they be relocated to a sanctuary, has been ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that elephants do not have the same rights as humans after the Nonhuman Rights Project sued the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo over the conditions of its elephants.

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 ...

Can an elephant sue to leave a zoo? Colorado’s top court must now decide. This undated photo provided by the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo shows elephants Kimba, front, and Lucky, back, at the Zoo in ...

At stake is whether the elephants from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo should be treated as people under the ... The group unsuccessfully sued in 2022 on behalf of an elephant at the Bronx Zoo named Happy.

BOULDER, Colo. — Five elephants in a Colorado zoo could someday sue for their freedom, if the state’s Supreme Court sides with an animal rights group and declares them “persons” ...