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(Image credit: (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS) For more than a century, Jumbo and his fellow circus elephants dazzled crowds with their performances, dancing around the ring in rows, lifting showgirls hi)
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(Image credit: (Owen Franken/Corbis) There was a darker side to the family-friendly shows, too. Animal rights groups have for years voiced concerns and mounted evidence that elephants from various)
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(Image credit: (AP Photo/Virginian-Pilot, L Todd Spencer) Of course, there are plenty of other circuses, both in America and beyond (Russia, France, and Thailand, to name just a few countries), where elepha)
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(Image credit: (Gaetan Luci/ Palais Princier/ Pool Cardinale/ Corbis/People)For Ringling Bros. elephants, at least, its time for a much-deserved retirement. The lumbering creatures will, over the next three)
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