"Because an elephant is not a person, the elephants here do not have standing to bring a habeas corpus claim," the court ...

Five wild-born elephants that have long inhabited a 2-acre plot in a southern Colorado zoo will not be able to pursue their own release, the state’s highest court ruled this week. Responding to a ...

A Colorado court has ruled against a bid to free five elephants from a local zoo, determining that elephants do not have the ...

The state supreme court on Tuesday said the habeas corpus law does only just that: grants people that ability, which the elephants are not.

Scientists believe another animal should be added to that list: the elephant. Testing has uncovered that these massive animals may have more going on inside their brains than humans ever considered.

Most state anti-cruelty laws also exempt farmed animals or allow standard practices that are patently cruel. No federal law in the United States explicitly regulates the treatment of animals on farms, ...