An elephant named Viola recently ran away from a circus after being frightened by a vehicle and went on a short escapade in Butte, Montana, before being captured.

The circus elephant escaped and ran loose in Montana on April 16 after being spooked. It was eventually recaptured.

An escaped elephant crossing the road in Butte, Mont., on Tuesday, April 17, 2024. (Matayah Utrayle-Shaylene Smith via AP) The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was ...

BUTTE, Mont. — The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath in Butte, Montana, leading the pachyderm to break through a fence and take a ...

An elephant roamed the streets of Butte, Montana on Tuesday, April 17, after reportedly escaping from the Jordan World Circus.

There was some BIG news this week -- literally -- as a circus elephant escaped from her pen and roamed the streets of a Montana city.

The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath in Butte, Montana. The pachyderm broke through a fence and stopped noontime traffic on the city&#82… ...

People have raised concerns that Okha, a 54-year-old Asian elephant that travels with the Mysterious Circus, had been allegedly mistreated.