Washington lawmakers are looking to pass a bill that would prohibit using big cats, bears and other wild animals in traveling ...

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 ...

Main circus train wreck in Vail on Wednesday morning ... of the five human deaths and the deaths of horses and exotic animals; and of a tiger that killed a cow being milked the next day.

The teacup pig sleeps in her trailer. When the Big Apple Circus ends in June, Vibdel and her animals will return to the farm. The rest of the performers will pack up, take some much-needed ...