In 2020, the world was shocked by the sudden deaths of over 350 African bush elephants in Botswana’s Okavango Delta. The cause of this unprecedented die-off baffled scientists and sparked global ...

Neuroanatomical studies show that elephants have a large hippocampus, a brain region critical for the formation and retrieval of memories. This allows elephants to store and recall information over ...

The African bush elephant is one of the heaviest land animals with adult male weighing up to 11 tonnes, and adult females can weigh up to 5.4 tonnes ...

Here’s what the court said. The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed the lawsuit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in May 2024, alleging the park in Colorado Springs kept five elderly African ...

Five elephants at a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their release because they are not human, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. The court said the decision "does not ...

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo shows elephants Kimba, front, and Lucky, back, at the Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Cheyenne Mountain Zoo via AP, File ...

Animal rights campaigners acting on behalf of elderly African elephants Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo wanted a court to free them from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado. The Nonhuman ...

Outrage erupted among animal welfare activists after Colorado courts ruled that five captive elephants could not petition for release. An animal rights group presented the case in Colorado. Still, the ...

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.Video above ...

Louise Deininger has adopted unconventional materials, such as elephant dung, the kanga, Ugandan bark cloth and cowrie shells to ... She lives and works in Vienna, Austria, and Gulu in northern Uganda ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project filed a frivolous lawsuit aiming to remove the Zoo’s five aging African elephants,” a spokesperson with the zoo shared in a statement. “While we’re happy with ...

Colorado's highest court has ruled in favor of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after it was sued by an animal rights group over the alleged treatment of elephants at the Colorado Springs facility.