Archaeologists are hoping to uncover the grave of a circus elephant thought to have been buried in an English village more than 130 years ago. The animal, called Nancy, may have been buried in ...
The elephant, named Charlie, was captured in 1984 from Zimbabwe’s Hwange national park when he was two years old. He was taken to Boswell Wilkie Circus in South Africa and trained to perform tricks.
In September of 1885, the Barnum and Bailey Circus arrived in St. Thomas, Ontario. After the show, Jumbo and a small elephant called Tom Thumb were being loaded into a circus boxcar when an ...
Seth B. Howes died at his home, at Brewster, yesterday, aged eighty-six years. He was one of the oldest circus men in the country, and was really father of the American circus. When but a mere lad ...
and Barnum & Bailey Circus’ parent company, Feld Entertainment, Inc., for elephant mistreatment finally went to trial on February 4 in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. AWI and its ...