Cynthia Moss, from the Amboseli Elephant Research Project, said: ‘Elephants in circuses are bought and sold, separated from companions, confined, chained and forced to stand for hours and ...

Sammy Haddock started working with elephants when he joined the circus at 20, in 1976, a young man's dream. He walked them, groomed them, cleaned up after them. More than once, he later confessed ...

Timeline. August 23, 2007 US District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issues a ruling rejecting Ringling Brothers' attempts to have the case dismissed, and permitting the plaintiffs' case to proceed to ...

Circus owner William Jaramillo is denying any claims of mistreatment. "The person who has the elephant is with the elephant 24 hours a day," Jaramillo told KWTX. "It has a special caretaker.

People stand near a circus elephant during a rehearsal in Sarasota, Florida, in 1949. Nina Leen via Getty Images.

Elephant Trainer Denies Animal Abuse Allegation. In 1998, the U.S. Department of Agriculture accused Ringling of forcing a sick elephant to perform before it could be examined by a veterinarian.

On Thursday, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced they would phase out their iconic elephant acts by 2018. The decision was spurred by public concern about the treatment of ...

She was temporarily seized in Moulton, along with four ponies, from her owners who have a Florida based family-run traveling circus on November 9 and transferred to The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald ...

The circus elephant sculptures that once stood outside the Hertzberg Circus Museum downtown have been restored and now stand outside the B. Naylor Morton Research and Collections Center on the ...

Margaret Whitaker was also called to the stand. She is an elephant expert from Texas and an animal behaviorist. She also has not actually seen the elephant in person and has only seen it in photos.