Following years of protests from animal rights groups and charges of animal cruelty, the circus officially retired its last 11 performing elephants in May. “People were asking, ‘What’s going ...

Circus staff in Yekaterinburg, Russia, now no longer have to guess whether their feisty elephants Karla and Ranni are happy in their home because they just proved that they are definitely not.

An Asian elephant who spent much of her life performing in a circus before she was given a chance to retire, she became the first elephant to call the sanctuary home. Founders Carol Buckley and ...

2015 / 78 minutes / Netflix This riveting documentary tells the tragic story of Tyke, a wild elephant forced to live within the confines of circus life and perform tricks. In 1973, a very young Tyke ...

As the elephant passes vehicles on the street, trunk and tail swinging, a bystander in the video says, “Only in Butte. A circus elephant got loose.” Local media reported that the elephant ...

An overwhelming amount of evidence establishing the severe physical, emotional and behavioral harm inflicted upon endangered Asian elephants by the circus was revealed over the course of the six-week ...

Songs they recorded included "(Meet) The Flintstones" and "The Bedrock Twitch." Recently, Peta informed the group that Carson & Barnes Circus in Kissimmee, Florida was using those sound recordings in ...

After performing as a clown for fifteen years, Kane was recruited by the Big Apple Circus when they saw him ... a farm in upstate New York where she trains elephants, leopards, and other exotic ...