The legendary «Circus of Barnum and the Ringling brothers», founded in 1871 year, is closed. Today, having existed for nearly 150 years, he gave his last performance in new York (long island) called the»Greatest Show on Earth». Those who could not get on the show, had the opportunity to watch it live on the site Ringling.
The reason for the closure of the circus — lose in court. For several years the circus desperately fought with the defenders of animal rights, claiming that trained animals in the circus is barbaric. Representatives of the circus claimed that animals are treated humanely, but their arguments were not taken into account.
In this regard, from the program had been removed performances with Asian elephants (on the planet there were only 40 000, 250 of them are in captivity in the United States and 13 were used for performances in the Circus Barnum). However, until recently, the circus continued to show numbers with tigers, dogs, lions, horses, pigs and camels.
