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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo leaders celebrated the outcome while sharply criticizing the Nonhuman Rights Project in a statement Tuesday. “The courts have proven now five times that their approach isn ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou, and Jambo have lived in Colorado Springs for decades in the elephant exhibit at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Now an animal rights group is ...

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 ...

The Colorado Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday from the NonHuman Rights Project and the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou, and Jambo ...

This undated photo provided by the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo shows elephants Kimba, front, and Lucky, back, at the Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colo.