A common practice - caged AND chained!

Have you ever thought what life is like for a circus animal?

Consider this:

• Is it fair to keep a wild animal in prison for all its life?

  In their natural state elephants and lions live and roam African plains.

  Those in circuses can spend up to 23 hours a day in cages or confined areas they are constantly travelling to different parts of the country in all kinds of weather which can cause them stress.

• Is it right to deny an animal its natural behaviour?

  In the wild elephants are intelligent, inquisitive and social herd animals, lions are hunters who patrol a territory.

  In circuses they cannot display their natural behaviour patterns and instead can develop neurotic behaviours such as rocking and repetitive motions and pacing.

• Is it humane to deny animal proper exercise?

  In the wild elephants naturally walk up to 25 miles a day seeking food and finding water to drink and swimming.

  In circuses elephants are never allowed to roam, they are kept in electrified enclosures often metres from the busy roads of suburbia.

• Is it right that people should be encouraged to laugh at animals?

  The original circuses depended entirely on human skills.

  Circus Oz and the Flying Fruit Fly Circus are proof that circuses do not need animals to be successful.

Are circuses safe?

Circuses are a risky business. Many animals are killed or injured, many handlers have been killed and injured, and (on a far too regular basis) animals escape.

(See link below to list of accidents).

What are the alternatives?

Circuses without animals of course! The Flying Fruit Fly Circus and the internationally acclaimed Circus Oz, have dazzled and enthralled audiences for years without the use of animals.

Click here to read the sad story about Arna the elephant?

Click here to see a list of accidents and deaths involving Australian circuses.