“The elephants I grew to know and love at the circus were beaten daily with sharp bull hooks and chained like prisoners for hours on end.” —Tom Rider, former Ringling Bros. employee After nearly nine ...

An elephant gets a "pedicure" at the Barnum and Bailey Circus in New York City. Shown is elephant trainer Mike Heyward. © 2024 Fortune Media IP Limited. All Rights ...

Ringling Brothers last rolled into Birmingham in 2017 on its classic mile-long circus train that traditionally housed ...

Although Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey have already phased out elephants, bears, lions, and tigers, regional circuses ...

On 20/20, the host contacted the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The elephant trainer, Troy Metzler, showed a white mouse to multiple elephants working for the circus. The results?

of fresh fish a day. Goliath, not a circus sea elephant him self, bore a great circus name. Goliath I and II were famed troupers for Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey’s Circus (TIME.

They keep the circuses separate, and the Wisconsin Historical Society wrote that by the 1910s the Ringling Bros. Circus had more than 1,000 employees, 335 horses, 26 elephants, 16 camels and other ...

Stardust Circus recently dropped your elephant act, and Cole Bros. Circus—where Frisco was a trainer—stopped touring. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed down because it wouldn’t change ...

Read full article: From ring to refuge: Asian elephants arrive in Northeast ... confirm nor deny a settlement. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which closed in 2017, also agreed to ...

The Ringling Bros. traveling circus is performing for the last time ... For me, lions and tigers and elephants walking around me was just natural. (We traveled) from town to town.