2007-09-12 - Minneapolis, United States. Brandt Williams
The Minneapolis City Council takes up an issue not usually on its agenda: the safety of circus animals. A proposal before the council would ban wild animal circuses in the city. While some say its the way to prevent animal cruelty, other council members say the move is misguided. The proposed circus animal ban will face opposition on the council. Councilmembers Paul Ostrow and Betsy Hodges are pushing a substitute ordinance that forgoes an all-out ban in favor of tighter restrictions for circus ...
2007-09-10 - La Grange, United States. Joe Sinopoli
Hundreds of excited students, teachers, children and parents came to St. Cletus School Wednesday to watch Viola do her stuff. The 35-year-old female Asian elephant was brought out to help raise the Big Top at St. Cletus School for the sold-out Kelly Miller Circus show Wednesday. As a special treat, students at the school were allowed to take time out of class to come and watch as the tent was raised. The tent, made in Italy from a fire-proof material, measures 160-feet by 160-feet and can accomm...
2007-09-06 - Everett, United States. David Chircop
Last month, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., denied an attempt by Ringling Bros. to throw out a lawsuit accusing trainers of abusing elephants with sharpened bull hooks, inhumanly chaining the animals and separating babies from their mothers in violation of the Endangered Species Act. The lawsuit was filed in 2000 by the Alexandria, Va., Animal Welfare Institute. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and other groups later joined on. Ringling Bros. says the charges ar...
2007-08-30 - RANIGANJ, India. Debajyoti Chakraborty
A huge tusker, straight out of the jungle, raided a circus in the wee hours of Wednesday, freed a female elephant and eloped with her to make a cosy home by a pond in Raiganj. This tale of untamed love has yet another bizarre twist: a second female elephant, said to be "very attached" to the one that fled the circus, has broken down and is grieving for her "mate".
2007-08-23 - New York, United States.
After seven years of legal fighting, a U.S. judge rejected efforts Thursday by the United States foremost circus, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, to derail a lawsuit alleging cruel treatment of its elephants. Its a fantastic result, said attorney Jon Lovvorn of the Humane Society of the United States, one of several animal welfare groups which have pursued the lawsuit. He estimated a trial date would be set for early next year.
2007-08-23 - Waikato, New Zealand. DENISE IRVINE
Its not often you see an African elephant grazing on the side of Hamiltons Rifle Range Rd. But yesterday lunchtime, 40-year-old Jumbo was having a grassy snack under the watchful eye of owner Tony Ratcliffe while carloads of mums, dads and kids stopped to take photographs. Jumbo was oblivious to the fuss she was causing, with one driver doing a u-turn in front of oncoming traffic in the rush to see the big beast.
2007-08-11 - Carlisle, United Kingdom.
ANNIE the Elephant packed her trunk but couldnt say goodbye to the Lake District. Thanks to the foot and mouth restrictions the 54-year-old veteran circus performer was stranded in the county. World-famous jumbo Annie, who has officially retired but still travels with the rest of the performers, had arrived in the South Lakes with the Bobby Roberts Circus on a leg of their latest tour of Cumbria and the UK. But when the restriction on the movements of animals came into force last week it was rea...
2007-08-03 - Dallas, United States. NANCY CHURNIN
With its new show, Circus of Dreams, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, the last bastion of busy-is-better, has reinvented itself as a single-stage Cirque du Soleil for the kiddie channel, complete with a giant circular high-definition screen suspended so audiences can alternately see close-ups of the action, pre-filmed skits including backstage mayhem and elephant commentary on "those cute little humans." And the appreciative crowd of light-twirling kids liked what they saw on opening night at...
2007-08-02 - Dallas, United States.
Nicole, an Asian Elephant from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, enjoyed the pampered life Wednesday in preparation of her Dallas debut. The circus, performing the 136th edition of The Greatest Show on Earth, runs through Aug. 12 at American Airlines Center. An avocado facial, pedicure and bath for an elephant from Bliss Spa: if we could all be so lucky.
2007-07-20 - Aiken, United States. TONY BAUGHMAN
The biggest star in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is so big, he won't even fit in the new USC Aiken Convocation Center. Circus handlers have discovered that the Gold Unit's 23-year-old Asian elephant is just too tall for the arena's 10-foot-high service entrances. Thus, when the "Greatest Show on Earth" opened Thursday night, the 11-foot-tall pachyderm found himself standing outside.
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