hese photos reveal how circus trainers cruelly force baby elephants to learn tricks, and it’s not through a reward system, as they claim. Explore the photos that will make you think twice about taking your child to the circus. You may have wondered how elephants to perform tricks like sitting up and even standing on their heads, but now you know. Ringling breaks the spirit of elephants when they’re vulnerable babies who should still be with their mothers. Unsuspecting parents planning a family trip to the circus don’t know about the violent training sessions with ropes, bull hooks, and electric shock prods that elephants endure, so we need you to tell them. We are sure you never see what goes on behind the scenes at Ringling’s breeding center, where frightened and still-nursing baby elephants are captured rodeo-style, tethered neck-to-neck with an “anchor elephant,” and dragged away from their mothers. You are oblivious to the year-long intense and violent training sessions that last for several hours a day. You never hear the screams and cries or see the futile and frantic struggling as baby elephants are wrestled, stretched out, slammed to the ground, gouged with bull hooks, and shocked with electric prods. Please share these photos and the video below with every parent you know and ask them never to go to a circus that uses animals.
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