Norma Jean was a star of the Clark and Walters Circus, which had come to Oquawka to perform in the city park in 1972. It was a small circus — a one-elephant circus, in fact. And Norma Jean was its ...

DUBLIN (AP) – An elephant called Baby did not want a bath. Instead, the 40-year-old pachyderm bolted from a circus in southern Ireland on Tuesday, causing some alarm to customers in a coffee shop ...

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, two majestic elephants from India crossed oceans to step onto American soil, ...

BUTTE, Montana -- This is not something you see every day. Video captured an elephant walking through the streets of Butte, Montana. It escaped from a traveling circus. The elephant, reportedly a ...

It had been 16 long years since the last Ringling Brothers’ Circus had played in Santa Barbara. Why? The elephant stampede, of course.

Atlantic City Mayor Don Guardian has his hands full daily, but Wednesday afternoon’s challenge was the biggest of his tenure so far — literally. Guardian squared off against Duchess, a Ringling Bros.

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

An Asian elephant that spent decades performing in South American circuses has started a new life in an open-air sanctuary in Brazil, after travelling thousands of kilometers by plane and truck from a ...