THE Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out the show’s iconic elephants from its performances by 2018, over growing public concern about how the animals are treated led to the ...

Elephants take a final bow at Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus on Sunday, ending a 145-year spectacle that delighted fans but enraged animal activists, who … ...

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out the show's iconic elephants from its performances by 2018 and move all the animals to the company's Center for Elephant Conservation.

In this Friday, Jan. 8, 2016 photo, Alana Feld, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus' executive vice president and show producer, interacts with Asian elephants outside the American Airlines ...

Senior elephant handler Ryan Henning checks the performing elephants before the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus show at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, April 29, 2016.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The curtain fell a final time for elephants performing at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus as the circus ended a practice that enthrall… ...

Last Saturday, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced it will fold up its tent after 146 years. The circus had come under fire for its use of animals but Gypsy Snider, who founded a ...

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephants are retiring early to Florida. The circus announced Monday it would end all of its elephant acts a year and a half early, and send the p… ...

Letting the elephants roam free. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will let its elephants go after years of protests about how the giant creatures are treated. The circus’ parent company ...

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is ending its elephant acts a year and a half early, and will retire all of its touring elephants in May. The move comes amid increasing scrutiny of ...

Jumbo, an African pachyderm, was the star attraction of the Barnum and Bailey Circus, in an age when animals were a regular feature of such amusements. The gigantic elephant, weighing seven tons ...

Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus will eliminate its elephant acts – long an integral part of the spectacle billed as "the Greatest Show on Earth" – by 2018 amid ongoing criticism by ...