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Tyke (1973 – August 20, 1994) was a female African bush elephant from Mozambique who performed with Circus International of Honolulu, Hawaii.On August 20, 1994, during a performance at the Neal Blaisdell Center, she killed her trainer, Allen Campbell, and seriously injured her groomer, Dallas Beckwith.
On October 22, 1943, German-American circus performer Aloysius Peters, billed as "The Great Peters" and "The Man With the Iron Neck", was killed when his signature stunt went wrong at the Fireman's Wild West Rodeo and Thrill Circus in St. Louis, Missouri. Peters' act involved leaping from a trapeze bar with a noose around his neck made from an ...
Mary (c. 1894–September 13, 1916), also known as "Murderous Mary", [1] was a five-ton Asian elephant [2] who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows circus.After killing circus employee Walter “Red” Eldridge on his second day as her handler in September 1916, in Kingsport, Tennessee, she was hanged in nearby Erwin.
Evansville animal control gave the Hadi Shrine Circus a permit to move forward as controversy around the circus' elephant act remains.
After the game, Toronto police charged Winfield with causing "unnecessary suffering of an animal". The charges were dropped the following day. [11] [12] Cocaine Bear: 1985: A 175-kilogram (386 lb) American black bear died in Georgia in 1985 after overdosing on cocaine.
Mary Rose Cawley (née Chipperfield, 26 November 1937 – 30 November 2014) was a 1970s British circus entertainer who specialised in a chimpanzee act. She was also known as an animal trainer, providing numerous animals for various BBC productions and the 1967 movie Doctor Dolittle. [1] She was later convicted on several counts of animal ...
Someone could face criminal charges after 15 cats were found dead inside a Michigan home. The Ingham County Animal Control and Shelter shared in a Facebook post on Friday, Jan. 24, that its ...
Caretakers at a taxpayer-funded Long Island animal refuge blasted their star attraction, Honey the Bear, with a high-pressure hose to get the hobbled, elderly ursine to move, advocates say a new ...