Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustrations: Joanna Andreasson/ChatGPT-4writ In January, six justices of the Colorado Supreme Court unanimously ruled that five ...

Last year, a tiny California hamlet took a giant leap beyond legal tradition. The Ojai City Council passed the country’s first ordinance giving habeas corpus rights to elephants, outlawing their ...

The Colorado Supreme Court heard arguments that elephants deserve personhood and should be released from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. It gave Colorado the dubious accomplishment of being the first ...

Legal advocates have pursued non-human personhood status for select species in several countries, but widespread legal recognition remains limited and rare. Because animals are legally classified as ...

Efforts to grant legal rights to whales and dolphins signal a shift in attitudes about how we view reason, dignity, and language across species. It’s pretty difficult to find people who support wanton ...

Maybe you were raised in a house full of prowling, meowing, under-bed lurking cats, and find that, as a mature, taxpaying adult, you simply can’t live without a cat or two or six or, fine, a baker’s ...

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) (CN) — Five elderly African ...

Illustrating growing popular interest in the concept, a documentary about the legal battle for nonhuman animal personhood entitled Unlocking the Cage made its debut in January at the Sundance Film ...

In January, six justices of the Colorado Supreme Court unanimously ruled that five elderly African elephants were not people. That may not sound like an issue that needs six justices to resolve, but ...

My reaction to the killing of Harambe the gorilla at the Cincinnati zoo when a child went into the gorilla’s enclosure is probably typical: I am sickened and I am angry. This must not happen again.

Over the past decade, the Nonhuman Rights Project and several other animal rights groups have waged a novel campaign to extend legal "personhood" to animals, which would allow them to be plaintiffs in ...