The movie "Gladiator II" features scenes involving rhinos, baboons and sharks. A professor explains whether these animals were actually featured in the Roman Colosseum.

In fact, all sorts of animals were part of the show. Historians say many more animals than humans were involved in entertainment events at arenas like the Colosseum.

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The Romans are famous for their battles in the Colosseum, ... wild animals was the basis of the initial beast spectacles which began in 275BC with an exhibition of captured war elephants.

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In "Gladiator II," a fighter is seen riding into the Colosseum on a giant rhino. This isn't likely to have happened, given that the animals were mostly there to be tracked and killed.

Colosseum Animals The bigger gripe is with the animals in the colosseum battles. Many critics have pointed out there were never sharks in the naumachia, and this is an issue that pulls some ...

Over 9,000 animals died as well. Jewish slaves were corralled into the Hypogeum. That is a two-level underground prison, tunnel network, and system of cages under the Colosseum.

When Emperor Titus held 100 days of games in the Colosseum to mark its opening, Belonick estimates that around 10,000 animals were killed in just a few days. "They were killed in all kinds of ...

There was basically a period of, I think, 10 to 20 years before they put the full basement in, when they could have flooded the floor and had exhibitions with marine animals and that sort of thing.” ...

NPR's Scott Simon details the "gladiator experience" that 16 lucky — or unlucky — people might have next year inside the Roman Colosseum. Will they not be entertained?