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

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 ...

Proposed Illinois law adds big cats, bears and primates to the state circus animal ban citing welfare concerns and a national ...

OAKLAND (BCN)—Two days before the Ringling Brothers Circus begins a series of shows in Oakland, two City Council members and animal rights activists said today that they’re glad the circus has decided ...

Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has signed a bill making Washington the twelfth state in the country to restrict the use of animals in traveling circuses, exhibits and other shows. Washington State ...

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 ...

"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 ...

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) settled a protracted case related to elephant abuse with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey today, agreeing to pay the circus' ...

This week, a photograph surfaced on Facebook showing elephants drinking from the kennels in Helston, sparking interest among ...