Elephants being prematurely retired from Ringling Circus

#ringlingcircus #elephants It has been decided by the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to end its elephant acts a year and a half in advance - the plan was to retire them in 2018 but, now, all of its touring elephants will be retired in May and the animals would be sent permanently to the company's 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central Florida. There are, at present, 11 elephants on tour with the circus.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 11 January 2016.

Feld Entertainment owns the largest herd of Asian elephants in North America and, in addition to those still touring, there are 29 more elephants on the property now, and two additional animals are on breeding loans to zoos. It costs nearly $65,000 yearly to care for each elephant and that is a lot of money.
Elephant acts have been showcased by Ringling for more than a century and have often been featured on its posters. However, in view of many cities and counties passing "anti-circus" and "anti-elephant" ordinances, it becomes difficult to organize tours of three traveling circuses to 115 cities each year. Moreover, fighting legislation in each jurisdiction is expensive.

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