AOL

For its first season ever without elephants, Circus World will have a human cannonball

For the first time since the Ringling Bros. brought their circus to Baraboo in the late 1800s, elephants won't be returning to the city as Circus World prepares to open their summer performance season ...
ABC 7 Chicago

I-Team elephant reports marked beginning of end for circus

This weekend's last show on earth for "The Greatest Show on Earth" has been in the making for 22 years, since a series of I-Team reports questioned whether elephants at Ringling Brothers and Barnum & ...
Jezebel

Elephants Give Final Performance for Ringling Bros. Circus

After years of protests from the Humane Society and other animal activists, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus are retiring their elephants. According to the Associated Press, the gentle giants ...
Southeast Missourian

Elephants perform for final time at Ringling Bros. circus

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Elephants performed for the last time at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus on Sunday, as the show closed its own chapter on a controversial practice that has ...