In this episode Elizabeth tells the story of P.T. Barnum and Shannon tells us about circus animals and the hopeful future for those animals in sanctuaries.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-pt-barnum-greatest-humbug-them-all-180967634/

Smithsonianmag.com P.T. Barnum Isn’t the Hero the ‘Greatest Showman’ Wants You to Think by Jackie Mansky

https://www.britannica.com/biography/P-T-Barnum

Britannica.com P.T. Barnum American Showman by Irving Wallace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_the_Pinhead

https://www.freedomforanimals.org.uk/blog/animal-circuses-animal-suffering

https://www.peta.org/features/real-animal-sanctuary-zoo/

https://web.archive.org/web/20100726045752/http://www.peta.org/mc/factsheet_display.asp?ID=66

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sanctuary

https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-in-entertainment/circuses/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus#Animal_acts

https://mypositiveoutlooks.com/circus-elephants-reunited-after-22-years-of-separation/

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/urban-elephant-whatever-happened-shirley-jenny/11371/