WASHINGTON-- A federal judge began hearing a lawsuit alleging the abuse of circus elephants, including the use of heavy chains, tethers and sharp tools called bullhooks. Defense attorneys for ...

A circus without elephants might be more humane, but apparently it's far less enticing. The owners of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus said they will permanently end their 146-year-old ...

“The elephants I grew to know and love at the circus were beaten daily with sharp bull hooks and chained like prisoners for hours on end.” —Tom Rider, former Ringling Bros. employee After nearly nine ...

Tigers, monkeys, jaguars, elephants and lions are among the animals being moved due to the cartel violence​ eclipsing the ...

They keep the circuses separate, and the Wisconsin Historical Society wrote that by the 1910s the Ringling Bros. Circus had more than 1,000 employees, 335 horses, 26 elephants, 16 camels and other ...

The Ringling Bros. traveling circus is performing for the last time ... For me, lions and tigers and elephants walking around me was just natural. (We traveled) from town to town.

Indeed, the circus cited the increasing patchwork of local laws when it announced in 2015 that it would finally bow to long-standing public pressure and stop using elephants. Today, Ringling Bros.

An elephant stretches its trunk through a ... the end to a way of life few others have experienced. Ringling is the last circus anywhere to travel by train, and while living on a train can be ...

On a quiet May morning in Marietta 110 years ago, the first of five trains made their way from Zanesville to Marietta as the ...

Stardust Circus recently dropped your elephant act, and Cole Bros. Circus—where Frisco was a trainer—stopped touring. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed down because it wouldn’t change ...

His Bailey Circus eventually evolved into Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Old Bet was said to be first elephant to tour the eastern seaboard. Start the day smarter. Get all the ...