With several captive elephants succumbing to illnesses over the years, international organisations refused new imports ...

One of Sedgwick County Zoo's long-time elephants is leaving soon. Titan will be sent to another zoo sometime before spring.

The Dickerson Park Zoo (DPZ) announced the death of Ade, an 18-and-a-half-year-old African lion on Friday. After battling ...

The court rejected a case to send five African elephants to a sanctuary, saying they have no legal right to demand release ...

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The Colorado Supreme Court decided that elephants are not people, and don’t have the same rights. The state’s habeas corpus ...

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

The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday denied releasing five elderly elephants from a local zoo, saying that the animals may be ‘majestic’ but they are not humans. It ruled that the elephants were not ...

A bid to free five elephants from a Colorado zoo has been rejected after a court ruled elephants are not people.

Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state's highest court said the animals have no ...

A lawsuit arguing elephants should be freed from a zoo has failed in court, with the judge ruling that "majestic" mammals do ...

A Colorado court rejected efforts to free five elephants using a legal process for human detainees, writing that it “boils ...