Julie spent 40 years in captivity before being released into a 1,000-acre sanctuary, a charity says.

A look back at the heartwarming moments of the FIFA World Cup that resonated with both fans and those not so keen on football ...

Triggered emotions are the sign of a successful photograph – and I was reminded of this when I stumbled across photographs of ...

Animal rights protesters gathered outside an arena in Pendleton to protest the use of an elephant in a traveling circus.

When Julie took her first steps of freedom into her new home at an British ran elephant sanctuary based in southern Portugal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This show is not your average stage musical, as it incorporates breathtaking acrobatic stunts that one would see in "Cirque Du ...

On March 5, 2015, Feld Entertainment, Inc., the world’s largest live family entertainment company and owner of the largest number of Asian elephants in North America, announced it would end elephant ...

“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.”” After nearly nine years of intense legal wrangling, the ...

Scrape away the circus elements of the stage musical “Water for Elephants” — an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Sara Gruen — and you’re left with a pretty ordinary show. Running through ...