By Sky News US Team
The Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus is ending its iconic elephant acts, a feature of the show for more than a century.
The circus plans to phase out elephant acts by 2018, the AP news agency reported.
Growing public concern about how the animals are treated led to the decision, said the circus' parent company Feld Entertainment.
"There's been somewhat of a mood shift among our consumers," said Alana Feld, the company's executive vice president. "A lot of people aren't comfortable with us touring with our elephants."
Another reason for the decision, the company said, was that certain cities and counties have passed "anti-circus" and "anti-elephant" ordinances.
Feld's 43 elephants will live at the company's 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central Florida.
Twenty-nine animals are already there, and the other 14 will arrive as they are phased out from the circus.
PETA welcomed the decision.
"If Ringling is really telling the truth about ending this horror, it will be a day to pop the champagne corks," said the group's president Ingrid E Newkirk.
Elephant acts have been showcased by Ringling for more than a century and have often been featured in its posters. The company's president, Kenneth Feld, once said elephants were a "symbol of the 'Greatest Show on Earth'".
But in recent years the elephants have been at the centre of lawsuits and ongoing complaints from animal rights activists.
The circus will continue to use other animals and will likely showcase more motorsports and daredevils.
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