The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is asking for your help choosing the name of their newest resident: a baby sloth born back in ...

Olive, Emerald, Jade, or Forrest? That's the question the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is asking as they look to name a new baby ...

You might not have family or friends who work in programs dependent on federal grants, so you might not care that long-term ...

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.

The high court rejected arguments that elephants qualify as “persons” under state law and suggested animal advocates turn to the legislative branch to expand legal rights.

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled in a 6-0 decision that African elephants Jambo, Kimba, LouLou, Lucky and Missy cannot ...

Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there after the state's Supreme Court ruled they don't have the ...

Elephants Kimba, Missy, LouLou, Lucky and Jambo live at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, but The Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) argued they should be moved to a ‘suitable’ sanctuary. In court ...

The group alleged that the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s five elephants—named Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo—were “unlawfully confined,” according to the ruling. They made their case ...

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

At least, that’s the ruling of the state’s Supreme Court, who this week decreed that five elephants currently held at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs have no legal right to ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed the suit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in May 2024 alleging the park in Colorado Springs kept five elderly African elephants named Missy, Kimba ...