Cirque du Soleil, a Canadian import and America’s most profitable circus, is animal-free but full of animalized human performers. Courtesy: Cirque du Soleil In 1917, the publication of a ...

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus returns to Atlanta after an eight-year hiatus for 13 shows at two venues over two weekends.

Animal rights are not about ranking or quantifying suffering, because all sentient beings deserve to be free." There are many accounts of circus staff and trainers being attacked by animals in ...

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 The live animals have been replaced by holograms. Because of concerns ...

An obese, three-tonne circus hippo could finally be set free after a lengthy court battle ... and is the culmination of a lengthy legal battle between an animal rights group and the family ...

21, 2018. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) Washington lawmakers are looking to pass a bill that would prohibit using big cats, bears and other wild animals in traveling circus acts in the state.