While telling me about the three-day extravaganza called the Chicago Circus & Performing Arts Festival that is taking place this weekend on the West Side, Amancay Kugler remembered her first circus.

"Fall of the Big Top: The Vanishing American Circus" by David Lewis Hammarstrom: Once an eagerly awaited spectacle, the traveling circus —that miracle of red wagons, trumpeting elephants and ...

The Elephant Hotel, a Somers national historic landmark that serves as the northern Westchester locale’s town hall, will undergo more restoration and weather-proofing improvements through a new ...

One of the witnesses, Murni, a 53-year-old former OCI circus elephant trainer, denied the claims of circus workers being forced to eat elephant feces during training. "During my time at OCI taking ...

Throughout the 20th century, elephants were often used in parades, promotions, and events in Toronto, attracting large crowds of spectators. The Garden Bros Circus is perhaps one of the most ...

Already enjoying the Brazil Elephant Sanctuary are five Asian elephants — including Mara, a former circus elephant that also ended up in the Argentine preserve’s enclosure and five years ago ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Pupy the elephant arrived at her new home in a sanctuary in Mato Grosso, Brazil, Friday following a 2,700-kilometer (1,680-mile) overland journey from a zoo ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — An unusual convoy neared Argentina's lush border with Brazil on Tuesday, after snaking through traffic-snarled roads for hours. Inside the specialized iron crate ...