As it turns out, the elephants you see in circuses aren’t having as much fun as it seems.
1. In the 19th century, P.T. Barnum sent his associates to Sri Lanka to catch elephants to bring over to New York. Written accounts from the 1850s say the elephants were tied up with nooses for the 12,000-mile journey.
2. Countries like Bolivia, Peru, Greece, Cyprus, Paraguay, Colombia, Netherlands, and Slovenia have banned the use of wild animals, like elephants, in circuses.
3. Bolivia was the first country in the world to ban animals in circuses.
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4. Elephants that live in captivity live almost half as long as wild elephants.
5. Elephants walk up to 50 miles a day in the wild.
6. In circuses, elephants spend most of their lives either in chains, or traveling inside boxcars.
7. Even compared with zoo enclosures, minimum guidelines for circus cages and pens provide a lower amount of space.
8. In circuses, elephants are often housed singly, even though they are incredibly social animals who travel in herds.
9. This can have significant negative consequences for their behavior, welfare and reproduction.
10. Captive elephants often exhibit aberrant behavior such as rocking back and forth or swaying from side to side due to trauma.
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