IN their native land, elephants forage for food and enjoy a social life within their groups.
Man is the only enemy who encroached on their land, destroying habitat and culling indiscriminately.
Captured young elephants are confined in circus chains, forced to sleep standing in cramped trucks and to perform under constant threat of punishment.
Tiger cubs are placed in unnatural surroundings and taught to perform degrading tricks - to sit up and beg.
The circus is one of the most grotesque shows ever invented. It is mindless sadism masquerading as family entertainment.
Take your family to circuses that only use human performers. All circus acts involving animals should be banned.
SHEILA BRENNAN, Bombay Street, Blackburn.
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