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Animal rights groups have scored a major victory against the Greatest Show On Earth, but that isn’t stopping the protests.
Ringling Brothers, America’s best-known circus, announced Monday it will relocate all its elephants to a conservation center here in Florida by the end of May. That pushes up the retirement date for circus pachyderms by more than a year.
The Ringling announcement comes after years of protests from animal rights organizations who’ve long accused the circus of mistreating the elephants (a charge circus management denies).
Parent company Feld Entertainment had originally said that the elephants, a centerpiece of the 145-year-old…
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