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Showing posts with label Circus animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Circus animals. Show all posts
Wednesday, 17 April 2024

Alexis Gruss, 1944 - 2024 - Farewell to a Knight of the French Circus

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Alexis Gruss and wife Gipsy in one of his final visits to the ring The death of French showman Alexis Gruss on 6 April highlights the diff...
Friday, 24 June 2022

Circus reopening in Ukraine with tigers, parrots and horses

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  The latest news from Ukraine is that the National Circus building in Kyiv will be reopening from 2 July with a production called Save t...
Tuesday, 23 July 2019

Wild animals banned from English circuses

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News coverage of one of the last elephants to appear in an English circus - in 1999 The House of Lords has today approved a ban on wi...
Tuesday, 2 April 2019

15 Facts about Philip Astley, the man Who Invented the Circus, for World Circus Day

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Philip Astley's open air amphitheatre Saturday 20 April 2024 is the 14th World Circus Day .  The circus was in  1768  founded ...

20 Circus Facts for World Circus Day, 20 April, 2024

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Roll up, roll up... for World Circus Day! Saturday 20 April 2022  will be the 14th World Circus Day . To celebrate, here are  20 fabulo...
Tuesday, 3 April 2018

Peter Jolly's Circus - The Most Traditional Show On Earth!

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A lovely teaser for one of my favourite circuses. Read about my visit to this beautiful traditional show in the new updated edition of C...
Saturday, 30 December 2017

Scotland and Ireland ban wild animals from the big top as the traditional circus slowly disappears

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Thomas Chipperfield presents the last big cats to grace Peter Jolly's Circus, in 2014 “I remember the elephants - just.” Those...
Friday, 24 November 2017

Crowds queue to see Martin Lacey's British lions at Germany's Circus Krone

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Tuesday, 21 November 2017

Brexit, sentient animals and animal rights - a lesson from the circus

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So Theresa May 's government has voted that "animals can't feel emotions or pain." That's what the headline says ...
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Monday, 4 September 2017

Circus Elephants ban in Illinois

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The fate of the traditional circus with animals has suffered another blow with Illinois becoming the first state in America to ba...
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Saturday, 26 August 2017

God bless the circus animals - Archbishop welcomes Zippos to Brighton

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A Zippos horse with ringmaster Norman Barrett MBE The horses and budgies of Zippos circus were blessed upon their arrival in Brighton ...
Tuesday, 10 January 2017

Tiger tamer Thomas tackles Roger Moore over circus animals hypocrisy

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First it was Amanda Holden , now it's James Bond ...  Read the story here.
Friday, 16 December 2016

Threat of Welsh circus ban recedes

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A Chipperfield tiger There's good news for the future of circuses with animals as a statement from the Welsh government seems ...
Tuesday, 29 November 2016

The Educational value of Circuses, Zoos and SeaWorld

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Douglas McPherson author Circus Mania The dumbest argument against animals in circuses , zoos and aquariums such as SeaWorld -...
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Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Why we need circus animals more than ever

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How dangerously removed we're becoming from nature when a survey by the National Trust finds nine in ten children can identify a Dalek ...

Thomas Chipperfield debut on Moira Orfei Circus in Italy

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Italian circus fans flock to see the white tigers The trainer's costumes before the show Novaro, Italy, November 4.  An hour be...
Tuesday, 1 November 2016

Beer for elephants

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Circus Mania will soon be reprinted with an exciting new cover. If you want to own a "rare" first edition with the ...
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Friday, 28 October 2016

Growing up in the circus - a picture that says it all

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Here's a picture that surely sums up how wonderful it must have been to grow up in one of the great circuses of yesteryear. Two kids...
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Thursday, 8 September 2016

Will Scotland be first part of UK to ban wild animals from circuses?

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Circus Mania author Douglas McPherson meets one of the last elephants to perform in a British circus. There has been talk of bann...
Friday, 17 June 2016

Pope praises circus folk and meets tiger

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The Pope has praised circus artists, carnival workers, street performers and other travelling performers, and also given his blessin...