Wild male lion kept in cage inside a circus menagerie - animal abuse© Mircea Moira/Shutterstock.com Lion brothers Rey and Simba were rescued from a circus in Ayacucho, a rural town high in the Andes ...

As the audience are guided to their seats inside the big top, all the classic elements of the circus are there — except one. The live animals. Germany's Roncalli ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lion prowled the streets of an Italian seaside town for several hours Saturday after escaping from a local circus, before being ...

When the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed down in May 2017, a victim of changing tastes and years of protests by animal-rights groups, The Greatest Show on Earth seemed like the ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - The Massachusetts House voted unanimously to make a circus shift. The bill would ban elephants, big cats, and other exotic animals in circuses and traveling shows in the state. Animal ...

Jan. 14 marked the end of Ringling Brothers’ 146-year run of animal circuses. This also marked the end of an era and a beginning of public awareness on the training and treatment of circus animals. It ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s “circus wars” are heating up, with a growing movement to ban circus animals meeting rising anger from circus workers. There have been messages posted on social networking ...

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 ...

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 ...

The smell of sawdust and popcorn fills the air. The clowns, acrobats and magicians are all in place. As the audience are guided to their seats inside the big top, all the classic elements of the ...