The highest court in Colorado denied a claim made on behalf of five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, ruling that elephants do not have the same rights humans do.
The case was brought by the Nonhuman Rights Project in an attempt to win the elephants their freedom, alleging that the elephants should be released to one of two elephant sanctuaries in the United States and that they can no longer live in captivity due to their age, according to a report.
“The legal question here boils down to whether an elephant is a person,” the court said, “and because an elephant is not a person, the elephants here do not have standing to bring a habeas corpus claim.”
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