Ringling Brothers last rolled into Birmingham in 2017 on its classic mile-long circus train that traditionally housed elephants, performers, crew members and their families. The show is back in 2025 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(August has this unpleasant habit of throwing people off the circus train at top speed if they ... who has never worked with an elephant, expresses nothing but enthusiasm about getting atop ...