Skilled acrobats, the sound of laughter, the smell of popcorn, the sight of trained animals, and even the clowns, what’s not to enjoy?
The main focus of the night that’s purely there to perform for our entertainment is the ones who do not get any say in being there. These animals are forced to perform over and over again for the amusement of the passing crowd. Across the world, thousands of animals are being captured, taken from their natural habitat, bred in captivity, tortured, abused, kept in unsafe “homes” and suffer a lifetime of cruelty and abuse. And this is all hidden by lights, laughter, and music.
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Animal performances are covered by the fun color costumes and tricks that leave the crowd amazed this disguises the fact that the animals are being held captive and being forced under threat to perform challenging, uncomfortable, and often painful acts.
Being a part of the circus often means you are moving from location to location which limits the necessities such as food and water the animals can consume. Moving locations means that the animals have to be kept somewhere during the trip, this results in them being forced to spend most of their time in cramped cages towed by trailers where there is only enough room to stand and move around, and when the animals are allowed out of their cages its only for a short time before the show starts, and even then elephants are kept in leg shackles allowing only movement of one step of each direction. The requirements set by animal welfare in Australia are being ignored. Even if lions are getting more than double the requirements set, that doesn’t get rid of their instinct to be in the wild, to run, hunt, and claim territory. According to the Victorian codes of practice for animal welfare, for any large cats such as lions, the ‘internal measurements of dens should be not less than 3 x 2.5 meters with a ceiling height of 2.1 meters’. National Geographic states that lions ‘wander a territory of 259 square kilometers’. So how could it possibly be right to keep a lion in a cage as small as 7.5m when their natural ability is to roam a territory of 259 Square kilometers?
Apes, baboons, chimpanzees, and other primates used in circuses are nothing more than being forced to live an unhappy life compared to their wild relatives. Live Science says the primates ‘tend to live in jungles, mountainous areas, and savannahs’, they also state that primates ‘are very social and live in small family groups of 2 to 6 .’ Peta.org states the ‘Primates are highly social, intelligent, and caring animals who suffer when deprived of companionship.’ Being held captive like every other animal at the circus in separated small cages with no trees or grass means that primates lack stimulation on a day-to-day basis and suffer
Physical punishment has always been the main training method for animals in the circus. Animals in the circus are yelled at, whipped, and hit to do tricks and perform, and it is not just one time, it’s over and over and over again.
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