Ringling Brothers elephants spend an average of 22 hours a day chained up. In the wild, these animals cover huge grounds each day and remain with their family herds for life. In captivity, they are brutally torn apart from their mothers at young ages - as young as 3 weeks - to begin "training", which involves sharp bull hooks and electric shockers.
I usually don't reply to these comments, but yours is too ridiculous to leave untouched. The RBBB elephants are only chained during feeding and sleeping hours. With an animal open house starting 2 hours prior to the first show at 10:30, and with the last show ending at 9:00, I count 12.5 hours of 'no-chaining.' Secondly, elephants DO NOT walk in the wild unless they are desperate to find water or food. Lastly, RB elephants are separated from their mothers at 2 years, the same standard as zoos.
Ringling Brothers elephants spend an average of 22 hours a day chained up. In the wild, these animals cover huge grounds each day and remain with their family herds for life. In captivity, they are brutally torn apart from their mothers at young ages - as young as 3 weeks - to begin "training", which involves sharp bull hooks and electric shockers.
Circuses abuse their animals... it's cruel the way they treat them. Don't you ever wonder why they carry the electrocuting stick? To zap them when they don't do the right behavior.. They don't try to use it in shows because it will show how cruel they are. Animals this size aren't meant to do these tricks. At least a zoo doesn't force them to do tricks...
@Elodee123 you do realize that the bigger the beast the more tolerant to pain it can be,right? those whips or tazzer sticks probably don't hurt these animals at all. and they are animals,not people,which means they don't have emotions.
@ImBigBrother Emotions have NOTHING to do with pain. It can feel pain, or else it wouldn't effect them and they'd have no use of using them. The bigger doesn't mean the more pain it can take. If i were to stab a bigger person, or animal, it would hurt just as bad as a smaller one. but it might be more likely it would be more deadly to the smaller one, but the pain intake is the same. Try again.
beautiful act - spoilt by some negative comments below - wish people would do some research before writing crap.
alexkeysmusic 7 months ago
YAY!
retownsend 1 year ago
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Ringling Brothers elephants spend an average of 22 hours a day chained up. In the wild, these animals cover huge grounds each day and remain with their family herds for life. In captivity, they are brutally torn apart from their mothers at young ages - as young as 3 weeks - to begin "training", which involves sharp bull hooks and electric shockers.
djelvischicago 2 years ago
I usually don't reply to these comments, but yours is too ridiculous to leave untouched. The RBBB elephants are only chained during feeding and sleeping hours. With an animal open house starting 2 hours prior to the first show at 10:30, and with the last show ending at 9:00, I count 12.5 hours of 'no-chaining.' Secondly, elephants DO NOT walk in the wild unless they are desperate to find water or food. Lastly, RB elephants are separated from their mothers at 2 years, the same standard as zoos.
retownsend 1 year ago
Ringling Brothers elephants spend an average of 22 hours a day chained up. In the wild, these animals cover huge grounds each day and remain with their family herds for life. In captivity, they are brutally torn apart from their mothers at young ages - as young as 3 weeks - to begin "training", which involves sharp bull hooks and electric shockers.
peepchick101 2 years ago
Circuses abuse their animals... it's cruel the way they treat them. Don't you ever wonder why they carry the electrocuting stick? To zap them when they don't do the right behavior.. They don't try to use it in shows because it will show how cruel they are. Animals this size aren't meant to do these tricks. At least a zoo doesn't force them to do tricks...
Elodee123 2 years ago
@Elodee123 you do realize that the bigger the beast the more tolerant to pain it can be,right? those whips or tazzer sticks probably don't hurt these animals at all. and they are animals,not people,which means they don't have emotions.
ImBigBrother 1 year ago
@ImBigBrother Emotions have NOTHING to do with pain. It can feel pain, or else it wouldn't effect them and they'd have no use of using them. The bigger doesn't mean the more pain it can take. If i were to stab a bigger person, or animal, it would hurt just as bad as a smaller one. but it might be more likely it would be more deadly to the smaller one, but the pain intake is the same. Try again.
Elodee123 1 year ago
find a humane zoo to visit instead
asdfxcxv 2 years ago
poor things, do you know how much suffering they go through? i only hope one day they learn to go thru with their show w/out hurting the animals
guitaristatheart101 2 years ago
Amazing show, yesterday there were 11 elephants.
mandykal 2 years ago
great show! too bad We missed the begining and I did not see the disapearing elephant.
LueRene 3 years ago