“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 ...
general manager of the circus’ breeding farm in Florida, testified that most of the female elephants are kept chained by two legs least 16 hours a day, and some are chained 23.5 hours a day at FEI’s ...
Tigers, lions and elephants died in a flood. Then came the deadliest rail accident in U.S. history when a train engineer fell asleep at the wheel. Roadside Memories author Justin Beahm shares the ...
As the elephant passes vehicles on the street, trunk and tail swinging, a bystander in the video says, “Only in Butte. A circus elephant got loose.” Local media reported that the elephant ...
They knew that he spent his days giving rides and that he was chained up ... Barnum and Bailey Circus arrived in St. Thomas, Ontario. After the show, Jumbo and a small elephant called Tom Thumb ...