Last week the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs did not hold the same rights as humans and therefore didn't have a legal right to pursue their release. The court upheld a lower court decision in a case brought by an animal rights group, the Nonhuman Rights Project. While the zoo said in a statement following the decision that the lawsuit was "frivolous," Jake Davis, an attorney for the NRP said it, and similar -- albeit it, losing -- efforts at other zoos around the country are the first step in a movement to overcome the status quo.
