An elephant named Viola recently caused chaos in Butte, Montana, after escaping a circus and roaming the streets on her own. Astonishing video shows the Asian elephant casually walking through a ...

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BARABOO, Wis. (WKOW) -- It's a bittersweet month at Circus World as staff soak up every last moment with the elephants before they retire at the end of August. Circus World Director Scott O'Donnell ...

Tyke the elephant was being forced to perform with Circus International at the Neal Blaisdell Centre in Honolulu, Hawaii ...

YULEE, Fla. — A moment more than three years in the making has finally come to fruition with a herd of Asian elephants settling into their new home at White Oak Conservation. They're the first of 30 ...

The Moolah Shrine Circus in Missouri said it will retire its performing elephants and that they will now "roam the land." The circus, which operates in St Louis, said in a statement that the decision ...

After more than eight years of legal skirmishing, a trial is scheduled to open Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by animal welfare groups alleging Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus routinely abuses ...

They've worked hard all their lives. About 30 retired circus elephants — some slowed by age and infirmity — will live out the rest of their days in leisure at an internationally respected wildlife ...

Nicole the Asian elephant was part of an elderly trio of zoo pachyderms, but the rest of her herd died last year A former circus elephant will spend the remainder of her years at a sanctuary in ...

POLK CITY, Fla. (AP) - The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced Thursday it will phase out the show's iconic elephants from its performances by 2018. Elephants have long been the symbol ...