The circus owners, fearing a loss of business, quickly declared that Mary would be executed to appease the public. What followed was grotesque: The 22-year-old elephant, who came to be known as ...

Residents in Butte, Montana may be more used to seeing bison, but an escaped circus elephant was a surprise when she was captured on video walking through the town streets. Viola, the 58-year-old ...

This riveting documentary tells the tragic story of Tyke, a wild elephant forced to live within the confines of circus life and perform tricks. In 1973, a very young Tyke was wrested from her family ...

She was a circus elephant being pulled in a horse trailer ... Flora, now 42 years old, has flourished. She’s living a life where she can make her own choices and form bonds with her peers.

Circus staff in Yekaterinburg, Russia, now no longer have to guess whether their feisty elephants Karla and Ranni are happy in their home because they just proved that they are definitely not.

The elephant, named Charlie, was captured in 1984 from Zimbabwe’s Hwange national park when he was two years old. He was taken to Boswell Wilkie Circus in South Africa and trained to perform tricks.

Recently, Peta informed the group that Carson & Barnes Circus in Kissimmee, Florida was using those sound recordings in conjunction with performances including elephants. B-52s’ Kate Pierson, Fred ...