Julie, once a circus elephant, and Kariba, from a Belgian zoo, are to be moved to a former ranch in Portugal ...

Julie the elephant will join Kariba at the Born Free-backed elephant sanctuary – the first of its kind in Europe ...

The musical "Water for Elephants" follows a travelling circus and an unlikely romance, and it's coming to the Aronoff Center.

Animal rights activists are once again calling on the Commerford Zoo in Goshen to release Minnie, an elephant at the zoo, to a wildlife sanctuary — years after similar efforts were denied in court. A ...

In the past, people enjoyed watching elephants perform tricks in circuses. Today, such entertainment has largely fallen out of favor. Well-run zoos try to mimic the elephants’ natural habitat, but ...

Party house founder Mimi Shaw learned that her great-uncle was the owner of Sol's Liberty Shows — a circus that toured the ...

It was 10 years ago that elephants made their final appearance in the Ringling Bros Circus.Their final performances were in ...

To jump, an animal needs flexibility in the lower legs, strong tendons that act like springs and joints that can bend deeply before pushing the body off the ground. Elephants do not have that kind of ...

Elephants have problematic moms, too. A baby Asian elephant named Linh Mai has gone viral after being rejected by her mother. Linh Mai was born on February 2 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in ...

A millionaire game hunter was trampled to death by a herd of elephants while on a private shoot in Africa. Californian vineyard owner Ernie Dosio, who has killed dozens of animals including lions and ...