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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Colleen Slevin

SHOCKING: Should elephants have the same rights as people a colorado court may decide - What They Never Told You

An African elephant -

A court in America is being asked to decide if elephants are considered to be the same as people in a ruling on the animals’ freedom.

Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou, and Jambo have lived in Colorado Springs for decades in the elephant exhibit at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Now an animal rights group is trying to release the elephants from what they say is essentially a prison for such highly intelligent and social animals known to roam for miles a day in the wild.

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