DENVER — 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.

Perth Zoo's last remaining female elephant, Permai, is on the road to her forever home at South Australia's Monarto Safari Park. On Monday morning she was loaded into her custom-built crate ...

Perhaps that can be excused as Brown, a Detroit Zoo penguin keeper ... she was offered an opportunity to work with the zoo’s elephants (Wanda and Winky, who would later be transferred to ...

Molly Condit On Tuesday, Colorado’s highest court ruled that five elderly African elephants do not have legal standing to sue to leave a local zoo, because they aren’t human. The Supreme Court ...

The Detroit Lions have fielded plenty of negative news lately, mainly losing their offensive coordinator Ben Johnson to the Chicago Bears and defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn to the New York Jets.

The Detroit Zoo and the Belle Isle Nature Center will reopen to the public Thursday after closing for two days due to extreme cold. "After carefully monitoring the weather and confirming safe ...

A court has ruled that five elephants being held in a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their release, because they are not human. An animal rights group brought a lawsuit on ...

That's the finding of the Colorado Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled against an animal rights group's lawsuit alleging a local zoo mistreated its elephants and caused them chronic frustration ...

Last October, the group sued the zoo over the welfare of its five elephants: Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo. The NhRP was claiming habeas corpus as the elephants' next friend. This term is ...