Then a combination of freak show, zoo and museum, the event became a traveling road show in 1881. A year later, P.T. Barnum brought an Asian elephant named Jumbo to the United States. The circus ...

A court hearing will be held Thursday to grant a temporary restraining order that would prevent the LA Zoo from relocating ...

Pupy, who arrived at the Palermo zoo in 1993 ... the Brazil Elephant Sanctuary are five Asian elephants — including Mara, a former circus elephant that also ended up in the Argentine ...