After the show, Jumbo and a small elephant called Tom Thumb were being loaded into a circus boxcar when an unscheduled freight train came hurtling down the tracks towards them. Tom Thumb survived.

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

The zoo’s owners bought the elephant from a travelling circus in the Scottish capital from where he was supposed to travel down south on the train. Maharajah had other ideas and tore the roof off his ...

Texans are rallying behind a traveling circus elephant they believe has long been ... a long rod resembling a fire poker, to train and control Ohka, whose main role is to give rides to children.

In 1916, Mary, a five-ton Asian elephant with the Sparks World Famous Shows circus, was sentenced to death by hanging in the small town of Erwin, Tennessee. Her crime? The fatal trampling of her ...

and Barnum & Bailey Circus’ parent company, Feld Entertainment, Inc., for elephant mistreatment finally went to trial ... These records reveal that the elephants are chained on unyielding train ...

Kelly Miller Circus, which once used elephants from your circus, is now animal-free. Stardust Circus recently dropped your elephant act, and Cole Bros. Circus—where Frisco was a trainer—stopped ...