article_snippet.sent: The Ringling Bros. Center for Elephant Conservation sits on 200 acres of land in rural central Florida, halfway between Orlando and Sarasota, off a nondescript country road.
article_snippet.sent: You can walk around and you don't hear anything," said Kenneth Feld, who opened The Ringling Bros. Center for Elephant Conservation in 1995.
article_snippet.sent: You can't operate any business, much less with animals, if you don't have consistency from city to city," Feld said.
article_snippet.sent: You can't fight city hall.'
article_snippet.sent: The circus business has been a part of the Feld family since 1967, when Irvin Feld purchased Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey.
article_snippet.sent: When the center opened 20 years ago, the center housed fewer than 10 elephants.
article_snippet.sent: Trudy Williams and Trudy Williams husband, Jim, spend Trudy Williams and her husband, Jim time taking care of the animals' daily needs.
article_snippet.sent: Twenty-one tons of hay usually lasts only 10 days at the center.
highlights_snippet.sent: The expansion comes after Ringling Bros. said Ringling Bros. would stop using elephants in circus .
  