Every now and again I learn of a formal move to make the lives of animals better, and none could be more needed and timely than a new pending bill that is geared to ban wild animals in traveling ...

(Tribune News Service) — Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus recently kicked off a new nationwide tour following a six-year hiatus. But for the first time in the show’s century-and-a-half ...

Proposed Illinois law adds big cats, bears and primates to the state circus animal ban citing welfare concerns and a national ...

Wild animals including reindeer, zebras and camels will be banned from use in travelling circuses from next year, in a move praised by campaigners. Circus operators in England will no longer be ...

Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has signed a bill making Washington the twelfth state in the country to restrict the use of animals in traveling circuses, exhibits and other shows. Washington State ...

EVERETT -- As they lumbered past a muffler shop and the China Doll Restaurant yesterday, the closest the 10 Asian elephants came to their natural grassland habitat was a strip of manicured lawn near ...

The circus will give its final performance in May. — -- The owners of the famed Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus today pushed back against the idea that animal rights protests influenced ...

TIZAYUCA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico is searching for homes for at least 2,000 tigers, elephants, giraffes, zebras and other exotic beasts that will soon be banned from the country's circuses. Circus ...

A semi-truck hauling circus animals erupted in flames on an Indiana highway early Saturday morning — setting free camels, zebras and a horse to run wild along the pavement. Troopers scrambled to catch ...