DENVER (AP) — 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 ruling comes after the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a lawsuit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo over the conditions the animals ... the Zoo’s five aging African elephants,” a spokesperson ...

Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the US state's highest court said the animals have no legal right to demand their release because they are not human.