There is, in fact, a lengthy history of this kind of resistance among circus elephants. ... Kenya, an 11 year-old African elephant, had managed to snap her leg chain and wander free.

Both Asian and African elephant species are either endangered or critically endangered, with fewer than half a million of ...

In fact, it’s unclear what will happen first: the end of circus elephants or the extinction of African elephants. But even circus owners are starting to think this isn’t right.

29 elephants currently live at the circus sanctuary, and 13 more will join by 2018. The expansion comes after Ringling Bros. said it would stop using elephants in circus ...

BERLIN -- An elephant that escaped from a German circus and killed a man over the weekend has been relocated to a German safari park.. The 34-year-old African elephant named "Baby" on Saturday ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus bid farewell to its performing elephants on Sunday, as the show closed its own chapter on a practice that has entertained ...

Circuses prefer Asian female elephants to the unpredictable Asian males and elephants from Africa. ... The large circus elephant herd was vanishing anyway, but its end came sooner than I thought.

He argued that his elephants are more robust than those he saw in the wild during a family trip to South Africa last summer, where he saw them foraging for food in the bush, a "violent scene" of ...

The circus elephants perform the Here Comes the Elephants! act during the Moolah Shrine Circus on Friday, Oct 8, 2021, at the Family Arena in St. Charles. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lsrivan@post ...

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 ...