How Elephants are Used in Circuses

Elephants in circuses are used as objects of entertainment for people; but what happens once the show has ended?

• Elephants are confined and chained for literally hours on end;
• Through physical punishment and the threat of its use, they are trained to pose in unnatural and difficult positions;
• They are moved, in unbearable heat and below freezing temperatures, from city to city chained in flatbed trucks and in…