Outline
Circulating message protesting the cruel treatment of circus elephants features as evidence a photograph of a baby elephant beside its mother.
Brief Analysis
The continued use of animals in circus acts is certainly controversial and the often cruel treatment of circus animals has – quite rightly – been the subject of ongoing condemnation by animal protection groups around the world. However, as a protest, this message fails rather dismally. The elephants in the photograph are not cruelly treated circus elephants at all but rather a mother and baby being tended by curators soon after the baby’s birth at Oregon Zoo in 2008.
Example
Baby elephants are taken from their mothers, often at the cost of the mother’s life because a mother elephant does not give up her baby easily. The babies are beaten nonstop to break their will, then go through a training process of more cruelty and abuse. That is how they get a 10,000-pound elephant to perform the unnatural tricks they do for the audience’s pleasure.
EDUCATE YOURSELVES!!! Circuses are hell on earth for animals!!! – Trainers use bullhooks, whips, sticks, circus animal cruelty electric prods, and other tools that intentionally cause pain and injury in order to force animals to perform. Undercover footage of behind-the-scenes training shows elephants beaten with bullhooks and shocked with electric prods, big cats dragged by heavy chains around their neck and hit with sticks, bears whacked and prodded with long poles, and chimpanzees kicked and hit with riding crops. Trainers have to break their spirit; they have to tear the animal down psychologically before the trainers can actually teach them “tricks.” This type of training is usually done when the circus animal cruelty elephant is just a baby. However, there are instances where grown elephants are taken from the wild and “broken.” This is done by restraining the elephant with short chains to a small area as someone repeatedly beats the animal with a bullhook.
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