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Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state's highest court said the animals have no legal right to demand their release because they are not human. Tuesday's ...
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 ...
DENVER — Five elephants at a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their own freedom from a Colorado zoo, the state’s highest court ruled Tuesday. The ruling from the Colorado ...
Florida reformed its abortion law based on the American Law Institute Model Penal Code. [citation needed] Maryland: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be abridged or denied because of sex." [151] [non-primary source needed] Texas: "Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed, or national ...
Horse tripping is a controversial charreada event banned in nine US states. [70] The welfare of animals in rodeo has been a topic of discussion for the industry, the public, and the law for decades. Protests were first raised in the 1870s, and, in the middle twentieth century, laws were enacted to curb events using animals. [71]
Elephant executions occurred most frequently in the United States during the carnival-circus era of roughly 1850 to 1950; at least 36 elephants were executed between the 1880s and the 1920s. [1] [2] During this era, elephant behavior was often explained anthropomorphically, and thus granted a moral dimension wherein their actions were "good" or ...
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo do not have human rights. Here, an elephant walks within the Kimana Sanctuary in Kenya, February 8, 2021.
An 18th-century Indian miniature depicting women practicing zoophilia in the bottom register By 1974, the farm population in the US had declined by 80 percent compared with 1940, reducing the opportunity to live with animals; Hunt's 1974 study suggests that these demographic changes led to a significant change in reported occurrences of bestiality.