Don't you think it would be absolutely horrible to teared apart from your mother? This is exactly what the circus trainers are doing! The circus is tearing the babies …show more content…
Humungus animal in a tiny box on the road for one hundred hours strait! ! ! That is definitely abuse. Also, elephants are beaten in the slightest disobedience. On Twelve things Ringling Doesn't want you to know, there is a video of an elephants being smacked in the face with a stick for turning its head.
Another thing is that if you go to the circus, you should really pay attention to the elephants sides. You can see that the elephants have wounds from being beaten with electric rods, thick sticks, and burned with ropes. All elephants in the circus spend almost all of their lives in chains. They put the chains around their ankles, and sometimes instead of putting on regular chains the put on chains with spikes coming out of them to poke the elephants. Right now 270 Asian elephants are held in captivity. And 220 African elephants are held in captivity. Because of diseases 2% of African elephants have tuberculosis and 12% of Asian elephants have tuberculosis. This disease could kill the