“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 stretches its trunk through ... the one immortalised as “The Greatest Show on Earth”: the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which is hanging its hat for the last time ...

Right after that come the elephants, galloping horses, guys on stilts, dancers, goats riding on little ponies, clowns and the rest of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus. This ...

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?

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

Rhode Island happened to be the last place where Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey included elephants as part of the show. The circus retired its elephant act about a month before Rhode Island ...

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. April 18, 1932). Goliath III ...

Performers from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus visited the Children's Hospital of Alabama in Birmingham ...

Read full article: 🎪 ‘Circus spirit’ without animals, ringmaster at new Ringling show The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed its curtain in 2017 after animals were phased out ...

The odds of landing a coveted spot on the Ringling Bros. Circus’ elite traveling clown corps might be slightly higher than winning the lottery. But not by a whole lot. More than 4,000 clown ...