When they are not performing or training, this is how the tigers spend their lives in the circus. Horror stories about the treatment of circus animals often unfold in this hidden world.

Tigers showed their teeth ... For some historical perspective, read about the old circus sideshow “freaks” – people with birth defects who joined Barnum’s circus, often as children.

A sideshow talker would attract customers ... trainer Trey Key performs with his golden tabby tiger, Delilah, on the Culpepper & Merriweather Circus in Hartington, Nebraska. The U.S. Department ...

And if you’re trying to win me to your cause, they need to do better than the recent circus sideshow courtesy of ... protester would paint her body in a tiger design and peer out from between ...

Four- year-old Ruth Rozell, who was attacked by a Royal Bengal tiger which escaped from its cage at the performance of the Sells-Floto circus here yesterday afternoon, has died from her injuries.

Leonard Simon/Getty A circus worker in Egypt has reportedly had his arm amputated following a mid-show tiger attack. A video that has since gone viral showed the tiger mauling the man's arm as the ...

TANTA, Egypt (WKRC) - A circus employee was reportedly mauled by a tiger in the middle of a performance in front of a live audience, resulting in his arm being amputated. A video surfaced online ...

An audience of children and parents watched in horror as a circus performance turned into a bloody spectacle when a brutal fight broke out between two female tigers. The performance at Kislovodsk ...