FILE - A Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey clown does a somersault during a show Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017, successful Orlando, Fla. Four years aft the Greatest Show On Earth" unopen down, officials are readying to bring backmost the The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. But animals volition nary longer beryllium featured successful their shows. A spokesperson for Florida-based Feld Entertainment says an announcement is expected sometime adjacent year. The three-ring circus unopen down successful May 2017 aft a 146-year run. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, file)

FILE - A Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey clown does a somersault during a show Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017, successful Orlando, Fla. Four years aft the Greatest Show On Earth" unopen down, officials are readying to bring backmost the The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. But animals volition nary longer beryllium featured successful their shows. A spokesperson for Florida-based Feld Entertainment says an announcement is expected sometime adjacent year. The three-ring circus unopen down successful May 2017 aft a 146-year run. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, file) (Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Four years aft the “Greatest Show On Earth” unopen down, officials are readying to bring backmost the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus — without carnal acts.

An announcement is expected sometime adjacent year, according to Nicole Zimmerman, a spokesperson for Feld Entertainment Inc. of Ellenton, Florida.

The three-ring circus unopen down successful May 2017 aft a 146-year run.

Costly tribunal battles with carnal rights activists led circus officials to extremity elephant acts successful 2016. Without the elephants, summons income declined. Officials besides blamed accrued railroad costs, and the emergence of online games and videos, which made the “Greatest Show On Earth" not look that large anymore.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which was down galore of the protests, said it is thrilled with the conception of a circus without carnal acts.

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“The breathtaking announcement sends a almighty connection to the full industry, thing that PETA’s been saying for decades: Cruelty doesn’t beryllium successful the circus oregon successful immoderate different signifier of entertainment,” the enactment told the Herald-Tribune.

PETA and different groups maintained for years that the circus mistreated the animals featured successful its shows.

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