PETA member Shari Pearson sports a jail-like minidress in effort to appeal to crowd, stand strong against circus. In the days just before America’s own independence celebration, cries of freedom for ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. COCHABAMBA, Bolivia — She could have lived until 40 in the wild, where ...

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 posthumous ...

BOISE, Idaho — With 43 monkeys running loose in South Carolina after they escaped from a research facility Nov. 7, it got us thinking about Idaho's history with primates. Primates have been a part of ...

WASHINGTON — Animal rights activists asked a federal judge today to find that the Ringling Bros. and Barnum &Bailey Circus violates the Endangered Species Act by using metal-tipped prods and chains to ...

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has dismissed a complaint lodged by McClaren Circus over animal rights protests at its national roadshows, rejecting the circuss ...

Nicole the Asian elephant was part of an elderly trio of zoo pachyderms, but the rest of her herd died last year A former circus elephant will spend the remainder of her years at a sanctuary in ...

A chimpanzee who cheated death after being rescued from a German circus has begun a new life at Edinburgh Zoo. Babsie, a 33-year-old Eastern chimpanzee, was saved from being put down after the death ...