Elephants in Circuses

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The plight of elephants in circuses
(Click here for Part 2: Zoos)

Please don't ever purchase tickets to another circus with performing animals.

Although we have all probably been brought up to think of the circus as good family entertainment, these days hopefully the public is becoming aware of the abuse that happens behind the scenes in order for these magnificent animals to "entertain" us. They are forced to perform unnatural acts through fear, punishment, unconscionable abuse, and food/water deprivation. When you know the reality of the behind-the-scenes "training", hopefully you will no longer consider this "family entertainment". Let the humans do their wonderful acts, they choose to be there, the animals do NOT. Below is the main "training" tool, the bullhook which is yielded like a

baseball bat.
bullhook

As I write this, Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus has been taken to court over animal abuse of an endangered species, the Asian elephant. Born Free USA united with Animal Protection Institute, ASPCA, Animal Welfare Institute, Fund for Animals, along with a former Ringling Bros. employee, Tom Rider, filed a lawsuit against the circus for its mistreatment of Asian elephants. The trial documents and videos can be viewed on the Born Free website

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In addition, elephants can have and/or carry the same tuberculosis bacteria that can infect humans and the USDA circus factsheets will let you know just what circus elephants were tested positive as well as other USDA infractions. This additional info is copied from Leslie Griffith's article, click:

LINK for source: "Most, if not all of Kenneth Feld's performing endangered elephants have had Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. At least as many as 26 have died over the last 15 years with necropsies indicating most had tuberculosis and in some cases never knew it." There is a great video further down on Leslie's page (link above).

Performing elephants are also chained for most of their lives, except when performing, not allowing them any room for moving around. These are animals that roam up to 30 miles a day in the wild.

The photos above are of a circus elephant named Tyke who, after years of abusive training and confinement, attacked and killed her "trainer" and ran into the streets of Honolulu where she was gunned down. The USDA had documented Tyke being beaten in public to the point where she was “screaming and bending down on three legs to avoid being hit.” The trainer explained that he was “disciplining” her but this is virtually how all circus elephants are "taught" to perform tricks for our "entertainment." It's a very sad statement on human beings.

For a list of animal free circuses, click here.

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