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Essay / circus - 860
Remember those days when you were so excited to hear that a circus was stopping in your town? Have you been impatiently waiting for the animals to go to the circus and amaze you with their performances? If your answer was yes, you were definitely not alone. There were another 330 people out of 550 respondents who liked the animals' performances the most, compared to those of humans. However, recently, a part of the world was shocked by the video footage of animal cruelty in an infamous circus. This has given rise to controversy over whether or not we should use animals in the circus. Few of us knew exactly what was going on behind the circus and how the animals were trained, even though they provided the best entertainment for humanity. Most circuses travel around the world, just like animals. They even travel constantly, accumulating up to 50 weeks per year. In other words, 96% of animals' lives are spent traveling, mostly chained and caged. However, because the original purpose of the cage is primarily for travel and not for the benefit of the animals, it typically measures 4 feet by 5 feet by 6 feet. This cage size is incomparable with wildlife, where animals can have 200,000 cubic feet to reside. For example, tigers and lions can be caged for over 90% of their travel time, forced to do almost everything inside the tiny cage; eat, drink, sleep and even urinate. Additionally, the animals are chained. Elephants, 60% of the time, are chained with one front leg and one back leg. Although the chain is usually meant to be long enough, it prevents them from moving other than taking a step or two and lying down. This contradicts the fact that elephants like to move, especially in a g...... middle of paper ......intensive, fear-motivated training to do so. Instead, the natural behavior of animals should actually be to eat, sleep, and raise their children. These goals can then be achieved by watching Animal Planet or the Discovery Channel, which broadcasts documentaries about current animals. Although there is an animal welfare law regulated to protect the rights of animals in the circus, it appears insufficient to ensure that all animals are properly treated. In addition, no control over the progress of training, which constitutes one of the major abuses of the circus. Given their suffering and rigorous training, the animals should be banned from the circus. It is essential to know that we cannot achieve this alone, but together, as more than 30 countries around the world have done. Animals are not ours and they never will be..