“The elephants I grew to know and love at the circus were beaten daily with sharp bull hooks and chained like prisoners for hours on end.” —Tom Rider, former Ringling Bros. employee After nearly nine ...

In May 2017, embattled show owner Kenneth Feld closed the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus forever. A handful of shows still contain exotic animals, most notably the highly popular ...

Read full article: 🎪 ‘Circus spirit’ without animals, ringmaster at new Ringling show The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed its curtain in 2017 after animals were phased out ...

Vargas was born between two Ringling Bros. shows in Madison ... Years of protests by animal rights groups are among the things that took their toll on the circus in recent years, along with ...

Kenneth Feld, who is chief executive of the family-owned Feld Entertainment, which now owns Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ... corner of the work as an animal trainer overseeing ...

1887 — The official Ringling touring show becomes the “Ringling Bros. United Monster Shows, Great Double Circus, Royal European Menagerie, Museum, Caravan, and Congress of Trained Animals.” ...

The Ringling Brothers Circus has a special connection ... In those early days, the circus animals were brought to town by ...

The odds of landing a coveted spot on the Ringling Bros. Circus’ elite traveling clown corps might be slightly higher than winning the lottery. But not by a whole lot. More than 4,000 clown ...

He began contracting with the major circus companies to have his aerial acts appear and by 1942, Art was managing "The Greatest Show on Earth" for the Ringling Bros. Circus. The next decades of ...