Posted on 03/05/2015 6:41:29 AM PST by Red Badger
The nation’s leading big top act – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus – will phase out elephants by 2018, succumbing to years of pressure from animal rights activists.
The Associated Press reported that Ringling Bros. circus’ parent company, Feld Entertainment, will have its stable of 43 pachyderms live out their days at the 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central Florida.
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The killjoys win another round.
Id suggest that the Ringling Elephants be sent to zoos but that might be a bit presumptious of me
The Shrine Circus is great entertainment for small town America - especially for those children who receive complimentary tickets.
Do they give away the dung? It’s great fertilizer for your garden!..................
They will be retired to the Ringling Asian Elephant Preserve facility in Florida...........Some are loaned to zoos for stud........................
One article I read on the subject said they would be replaced with CAMEL riding acts.....................must be a muzzie angle in there ............................
Dumbo will now carry an NC-17 rating
............or be pulled from release like ‘Song of the South’.................
The problem is that many of these animals can’t live in their home countries anymore. Elephants, for example, had been almost entirely wiped out in their native Africa and parts of Asia. The main problem there is poaching which the governments in those parts of the world can’t or won’t do anything about. Elephants have been preserved largely through zoos and other conservation efforts.
I can’t speak for circuses, but zoos nowadays have moved away from the old cages to more natural habitats. They are also participating in breeding programs to preserve the endangered animals. Some of these critters successfully produced under these programs have been sent to preserves in their native countries.
Most people don’t like to find hare in their stew?
I wouldn’t mind........................8^)
I agree but I don’t think most people have given that a thought.
Elephants.com is a great place to check out. It is an elephant sanctuary in Hohenwald, TN that rescues elephants. There are 2 females who were rescued at different times and put in the barn next to each other. The handlers were shocked at the behaviors of them as they tried to break down the walls and we’re crying all night. Turns out, after researching both females, it was discovered that they were together when they were captured over 40 years ago and brought to America. The handlers put the two females together and they cried and stroked each other with their trunks. They are best friends and inseparable.
Poor elephants...they won’t forget this!
Maybe they can replace the elephants with the several hundred koalas the Australian government recently murdered because of “overpopulation”.
I love the idea of this conservation farm, having birthed 26 babies since ‘96, along with the very best veterinary care that rivals the largest zoos in the US.
http://www.ringling.com/ContentPage.aspx?id=45729§ion=45696
But I absolutely HATE the reason for this happening. The freaks that make up this group of animal rights in this country took 14 yrs of paying people off and lying to finally be put in their place but in the end, although it cost them millions in a lawsuit, they were the winners in the announcement today.
Too many cities believed what they claimed about the abuse of elephants and passed ordinances against elephants in the circus from coming to their towns.
Elephants are here for our amusement. I want to see them tiptoe on high-wires with little umbrellas.
I agree. 100%. It's about control.
Panty waists.
There was a field nearby when I was a kid, where the little traveling circus would set up. I don’t actually remember the circus, but I remember walking up the tracks a couple miles to this field (I was probably five or six), and seeing the piles of elephant dung all over. That and the grass being flattened were the only signs left that anything had happened. I remember that a lot of the piles were in a circle.
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