What Is Wrong With Circuses?

What Is Wrong With Circuses? Animals used in circuses can experience both mental and physical suffering. Restrictive space and the boredom from a lack of environmental complexity can cause individual animals to develop unnatural and ‘stereotypic’ behaviours; contract disease from unhygienic conditions; and suffer for deficient diets. Why animals should be banned from circuses? The

Will Ringling Brothers Come Back?

Will Ringling Brothers Come Back? “The Greatest Show on Earth” appears to be coming back. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s parent corporation is looking to hire a casting director for the famed American circus, which closed in 2017. The brothers’ combined show would be 150 years old this year. What happened to the elephants

How Were Animals Treated In The Circus?

How Were Animals Treated In The Circus? Physical punishment has always been the standard training method for animals in circuses. Animals are beaten, shocked, and whipped to make them perform—over and over again—tricks that make no sense to them. The AWA allows the use of bullhooks, whips, electrical shock prods, or other devices by circus