Animals for Entertainment: What a Crime

Whether it may be in circuses or in Seaworld, animals are used for our entertainment in lots of places.

You may be thinking,"Animals are safer in captivity than in the wild." In a sense, that may not be true. In the Ringling Brothers Circus, elephants are beaten with bullhooks to perform to a crowd. All the tension and stress and pain that they have to deal with is immense.

Think if you were an orca taken from your home: the ocean. You were put in a tank were you couldn't hunt like nature intended or swim freely in an ocean environment. Wouldn't you be depressed? Many marine animals have been known to kill themselves by throwing themselves against the walls after the show was done. Ever think of that?(Free the Dolphins!WSPA.org to learn more)

-The plight of Marine mammals in captivity