POLK CITY, Fla. -- The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out the show's iconic elephants from its performances by 2018, telling The Associated Press exclusively that growing public ...

Elephants will perform at the Alliant Energy Center for the final time this weekend as a contract between the venue and the Zor Shrine Circus expires. A new contract is in place to bring the circus ...

TEMPLE, Texas — Traveling circus Mysterious Circus is now in Waco and is addressing concerns regarding the treatment of their elephant, Okha, following recent social media posts that are alleging ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Animal advocates with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) demonstrated outside the El Paso County Coliseum to protest the Carden International Circus, which ...

"Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In Entertaining Elephants Susan Nance examines elephant behavior - drawing on the ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD – At the Big E, the elephant is never forgotten. Beulah, a 54-year-old Asian elephant, died at the Big E in 2019 of blood poisoning caused by a uterine infection. Sheryl Becker of ...

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Step right up! Step right up! Soaring acrobats, toe-tapping music and heart-throbbing ...

Alex & Yan speak out: 'They're guilty of believing the American dream is for anyone.' After four months spent in a detention center, two S.U.N.Y. Upstate workers have been released on bail. Syracuse ...

John Abraham has been successful in a campaign to end the use of elephants in Indian circuses. The actor is one of a number of stars in the country to work with People for the Ethical Treatment of ...

Both Asian and African elephant species are either endangered or critically endangered, with fewer than half a million of them left in the wild — a staggering and sobering statistic. Thankfully, a ...