When Kelly and Viola burst through the red curtains at Circus World at the end of the summer, it will mark the end of an era. The two elephants, performers at the Big Top in Baraboo, Wis., are ...

Circus World elephants, Viola, front, and Kelly participate in their last Big Top Parade and Circus Celebration Saturday in downtown Baraboo. The two 40-something-year-old African elephants will be ...

BARABOO, Wis. (WKOW) -- The elephants of Circus World celebrate their jump into a relaxing retirement with one final parade on Saturday. The Big Top Parade returned to the streets of Baraboo with ...

BARABOO, Wis. - The Big Top Parade will return to the streets of downtown Baraboo on Saturday, June 24, highlighted one last time by Circus World’s elephants. The elephants were named the parade’s ...

BARABOO, Wis. -- It was all smiles in downtown Baraboo Saturday morning as the city held its Big Top Parade and Circus Celebration. The event featured bands, performers and, of course, clowns. "This ...

Baraboo, Wis. (WKOW) — Circus World kicks off its season on Friday, and it’s the last one with the elephants as performers. The elephants have been a staple in the Baraboo community since the late ...

Six-year-old Derek Cruse, right, of Hampton, gestures to the elephants marching down River Drive towards the i wireless Center Tuesday afteroon as his younger brother, Braden, watches the procession.

“Howda do! Guess who?” read the large banner depicting the pyramids and sphinx draped over the side of a full-grown elephant walking down Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs in 1937. Atop the pachyderm ...

The story of Viola the elephant escaping the Jordan World Circus on Tuesday in Butte was shared nationwide and beyond. Reports of her brief journey for freedom spread like wildfire. People frantically ...