The cruelty that is the business of circuses needs to stop. The latest news of inhumane treatment is fully focused on The Ringling Bros. who tear babies away from their mothers.
PETA has released never-before-seen photos of trainers cruelly wrestling baby elephants using ropes, sharp hooks, and electric shocks in order to force them to learn circus tricks.
One of the quickest ways to put an end to this intolerable cruelty is to not support circuses, or any businesses that use animals as a showpiece or lock them in cages, far removed from their natural way of living (including pet stores).
To help get the word out to put an end to animal suffering in circuses such as The Ringling Bros. click here.
Some facts about elephants
• Elephants are among the world’s most intelligent species. Their brain is larger than any other land mammal.
• They display grief, learning, allomothering, mimicry, art, play, a sense of humour, altruism, use of tools, compassion, self-awareness, memory and possibly language.
• The elephant has one of the most closely knit societies of any living species. Elephant families can only be separated by death or capture.
• Aristotle was quoted as saying elephants are “the beast which passeth all others in wit and mind”.
• The elephant (Asian and African) has a very large and highly convoluted neocortex, a trait also shared by humans, apes and certain dolphin species. Scientists see this as a sign of complex intelligence.
• Parents teach their young how to feed, use tools and learn their place in highly complex elephant society.
• The cerebrum temporal lobes, which functions as storage of memory are much larger than that of a human.
• Because elephants are so closely knit and highly matriarchal, a family can be devastated by the death of another (especially a matriarch) and some groups never recover their organisation.
Why is this allowed to happen?
