When the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed down in May 2017, a victim of changing tastes and years of protests by animal-rights groups, The Greatest Show on Earth seemed like the ...

EVANSVILLE — An Evansville Animal Care & Control inspection Wednesday offered one answer, at least, to persistent questions and controversy about the use of animals at the Hadi Shrine Circus. Two ...

(Tribune News Service) — Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus recently kicked off a new nationwide tour following a six-year hiatus. But for the first time in the show’s century-and-a-half ...

Cirque du Soleil, a Canadian import and America’s most profitable circus, is animal-free but full of animalized human performers. Courtesy: Cirque du Soleil In 1917, the publication of a posthumous ...

Loomis Bros. Circus wrapped Huntsville shows, highlighting generational performers and sparking debate over animal care in ...

There was some BIG news this week -- literally -- as a circus elephant escaped from her pen and roamed the streets of a Montana city. The escape has garnered mixed reactions. While some said it was ...

The circus will give its final performance in May. — -- The owners of the famed Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus today pushed back against the idea that animal rights protests influenced ...

BAT held demonstrations from January 21 to 25 on Great North Road, where activists encouraged motorists to “hoot for animal ...

A semi-truck hauling circus animals erupted in flames on an Indiana highway early Saturday morning — setting free camels, zebras and a horse to run wild along the pavement. Troopers scrambled to catch ...

**Related Video Above: The extraordinary sounds that help animals relax MARION, Ind. (AP) — A truck hauling zebras and camels for a series of weekend circus performances caught fire early Saturday on ...