How fun is the circus?

While horses, lions, elephants, tigers, zebras, monkeys, birds, snakes and other animals perform their tricks the audience is amazed but when the circus has ended what is done behind isn't so amazing. The Ringling Brothers circus, the Greatest show on earth but is it really? It is said that it is an inhuman circus and mistreat their animals. In 1998, a baby elephant was strained to perform even though they knew it was sick and only hours later died. They have been caught on tape beating an elephant after stating that they do not hit their animals.

However, the Ringling Brothers circus is not alone. An elephant at the King Royal circus died from heat exhaustion in a trailer car. The Sterling and Reid circus has eight horses taken away from them because they were underweight which of course leads you to think that they were not fed properly. 90 percent of the time elephants are not performing so during these times they are chained by the leg causing them to hurt their legs when they try to pull away because of anger and boredom. If they aren’t chained they are controlled using electrical fencing. Circuses claim not to beat their animals yet you see their trainers with whips in their hands. Circus animals perform because they are fearful of getting hit again.

When animals aren’t needed anymore in the circus they are sent to zoos, preserves to be hunted, and even used for animal experimentation. Circuses don’t necessarily need animals. People do wonderful and amazing tricks on their own. People have the choice to join the circus while animals are forced to do so.

Comparing nature with circus living animals would most likely run back to the wild. In their natural habitat animals are able to grow up with their families, play around, gain hunting skills, climb trees, and just enjoy the wild. In the circus animals are separated from their families, chained and constrained, have to travel all the time in uncomfortable trucks/trailers, not able to nurture their children if they have any, fed food that is not fresh, and don’t get to enjoy the wild and explore on their own.

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