Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

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

Colorado’s highest court ruled that five elderly African elephants do not have legal standing to sue to leave a local zoo, because they aren’t human. The Supreme Court of the state ruled 6-0 against ...

The South African National Parks (SANParks) has confirmed that a tourist has been trampled to death by an elephant in the ...

An animal rights group had sought to have the African elephants ... “because an elephant is not a person, the elephants here do not have standing to bring a habeas corpus claim” under Colorado ...

A court has ruled that five African elephants at a Colorado zoo have no legal right to demand their release because they are not human.