Ringling Elephant Abuse in Austin, TX

A baby elephant cries out in pain as the handler drags her with a bullhook embedded in the sensitive spot behind her ear.
This video has been featured in an NPR national news story regarding the many allegations of animal abuse by Ringling Bros. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100229984

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Pets & Animals

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• elephant
• abuse
• austin
• ringling
• circus
• cruelty
• npr
• lawsuit

[SingingLioness]

Everyone should go to Cirque Du Soleil is safe and no animals are being used to create a show. Ringling Bros will drown when WE take action and rescue those poor animals from abuse. I advise you all to show up and protest if this circus comes to town. Let's save these animals! Animals deserve to be loved and cared for!! We need to speak out for the animals!

[Priyasweety188392]

I swwear i fuckin want to beat there asses. People need to stop abusing animals, poor elephants didn't do nuthin to them!

[cr14108]

@ginko27 since u think you know everything about every elephant on the planet I guess You can honestly say that these elephants love being told what to do instead of being in the wild!! Let's put u in a circus act and stick u w/ a bull hook mr. I'm a zoologist who also knows everything about the ringling brothers and what they do behind the curtains!

[Kagome811]

@ginko27 Keywords: IN THE WILD. No WILD animals should be held captive for anything, ESPECIALLY entertainment purposes such as the circus.

[ginko27]

@Kagome811 Asian Elephants, in general,don't walk as far in the wild as African or forest ones do,so most circuses use them. As you already know,they are very smart and they require mental stimulation 24-7 and when they don't get that they"go dead"and never seem to fully recover. I make sure that the elephants have a trainer avalible all the time and that the never got bored. The best way to help captive elephants is to work with the ppl who keep them and make sure they know what they are doing

[ginko27]

@Kagome811 Ok,what do YOU suggest we do with our surplus elephants? There is no room for them in the wild,and even if you could find room, elephants need years of learning to survive in the wild. Those are skills they just don't have and can't be tought in captivity. I don't know if you've heard of it or not but my home state(TN),has the largest elephant Sanctuary in the world and I work there.We get abused circus elephants all the time,but the healthy mentaly stable ones all come from Ringling!

[Kagome811]

@ginko27 How the hell could you actually support them? How could you be a real zoologist? You should know that elephants roam miles and miles a day when they are in the wild. They don't do stupid tricks and they are free to roam and live with their families. You of all people should know how bad circuses are for any and all animals. Also, even a ranch couldn't provide these animals with the things they need in their own homelands.

[Picachoo261]

I can't stand hearing animals cry!;( it's makes me cry. Please don't support animal curcuis!!

[tripvids420]

@ginko27

that justifies abusing animals??

[11301920]

BOYCOTT all circuses and put them out of business.

[JtVideoPoster]

let me find out who that fuck is and ill bullhook his ear see if he fucking likes it

[MADDOG6400]

@TheChihuahuamaster But do you actually see them off stage? Didn't think so!