Do you remember the first time you saw a real, live elephant? I was nine years old when a convoy of trucks rolled into the teeny town of Yellow Springs, Ohio (population 6,000) and parked in the empty ...

A Montana city got the show of a lifetime Tuesday when a show elephant broke free from her pen and tore down a busy street. Thrilling video shows the gentle giant thundering down Butte’s Harrison ...

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An elephant escaped the confines of a traveling circus and roamed the streets of Butte, Montana, on Tuesday before it was recaptured without incident, NBC Montana reported. Sheriff Ed Lester of the ...

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After enduring years of criticism from animal rights activists, Feld Entertainment, the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, announced in March 2015 that it would phase out the use of ...