You may have wondered how Ringling Bros. gets 8,000-pound 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,
bullhooks, and electric shock prods that elephants endure.
Every year, moms and dads take their kids to Ringling Bros. circus for a
little "family fun," but what they don't know is how baby elephants are cruelly
tied up and electro-shocked in order to force them to learn how to perform
tricks. Parents 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. Moms and dads are oblivious to the year-long intense and
violent training sessions that last for several hours a day. They 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 bullhooks, and
shocked with electric prods.
http://www.ringlingbeatsanimals.com/bound-babies.asp
source: PETA
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