Know Right Now: Ringling Bros Circuses Drop Elephant Acts

By Julia Lull
March 5, 2015 1:06 PM EST

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced Thursday it would eliminate its iconic elephant acts by 2018.

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