Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state's highest court said the animals have no legal right to demand their release because they are not human. Tuesday's 6-0 ...

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The same animal rights group that tried to win Happy’s release, the Nonhuman Rights Project, also brought the case in Colorado. The group argued that the Colorado elephants, born in the wild in ...

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

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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.

This follows a similar 2022 ruling in New York that kept an elephant named Happy at the Bronx Zoo. The Nonhuman Rights Project, an animal rights group, brought the case on behalf of the elephants, ...

Māori people celebrated on Friday as Mount Taranki in New Zealand officially became a person and, with that, was renamed Taranaki Maunga.