They don't care about the feeling of it, but just think of themselves.
Green Monday, a social enterprise promoting the vegetarian culture recursed to an incident happened 24 years ago on the social media that an elephant named Tyke was tormented at the circus. In one show, Tyke got angry and killed a trainer and hurt 13. However, Tyke only experienced its freedom for 30 minutes and then shot 86 times to death.
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They don't care about the feeling of it, but just think of themselves.
Tyke was captured in 1973 when it was a baby elephant and then sold to the circus in Hawaii, where it was abused day and night. On 20 August 1994, in Neal S. Blaisdell Center of Honolulu, it eventually got angry and stamped the animal trainer, Allen Campbell, to death and caused 13 other people seriously injured.
Tyke then broke through the iron gate and ran over the street for more than 30 minutes. The police fired at least 86 shots. It was then lying on the side of a car with blood all over its body. It once raised the right foot to ask for help. Finally, it died of internal bleeding, and only experienced 30 minutes of freedom in its life. Later, the incident was turned into a documentary Tyke: Elephant Outlaw, which shook the world.
24 years later, Green Monday published an article on the theme of "the terrified eyes" to recall the story.
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Tyke was captured in 1973 when it was a baby elephant and then sold to the circus in Hawaii, where it was abused day and night. On 20 August 1994, in Neal S. Blaisdell Center of Honolulu, it eventually got angry and stamped the animal trainer, Allen Campbell, to death and caused 13 other people seriously injured.
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Tyke then broke through the iron gate and ran over the street for more than 30 minutes. The police fired at least 86 shots. It was then lying on the side of a car with blood all over its body. It once raised the right foot to ask for help. Finally, it died of internal bleeding, and only experienced 30 minutes of freedom in its life. Later, the incident was turned into a documentary Tyke: Elephant Outlaw, which shook the world.
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24 years later, Green Monday published an article on the theme of "the terrified eyes" to recall the story.
Green Monday also pointed out that there would no harm without buying and selling, and call on people to stop watching animal performances. Riding elephants is also an act of injuring animals.
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The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath in Butte, Montana, leading the pachyderm to break through a fence and take a brief walk, stopping noontime traffic on the city's busiest street before being loaded back into a trailer.
Viola, an Asian elephant with the Jordan World Circus, still participated in two performances Tuesday after her time on the lam in the southwestern Montana city of about 35,000 people that in the late 1800s was the world's largest copper-producing area.
Viola was getting a bath behind the Butte Civic Center just after noon on Tuesday when she was startled, Civic Center manager Bill Melvin said.
She went through a “kind of rickety” fence and went onto Harrison Avenue, a four-lane street, stopping traffic and causing folks to pull out their cellphones to take photos and video.
Olivia LaBeau, 21, was driving home from a coffee run when the elephant strolled in front of oncoming traffic. One car began backing up, and LeBeau stopped her car as the elephant casually made her way to the other side of the road.
“I kind of had to do a double take,” she said. “I thought I was seeing things.”
She took a video of the elephant.
“I had to pull out my phone because I think if I told someone they wouldn’t have believed me,” she said. “It’s a very absurd thing to see in Montana.”
Viola walked about half a block in the road before turning into the parking lot of a convenience store and casino, Melvin said.
Town Pump surveillance cameras caught images from several angles of the elephant walking down the street in front of the building and plodding through the parking lot with a trainer beside her. She then moved to a residential lawn where she started eating some grass.
People with the circus drove a trailer over with another elephant inside, Melvin said. They “put the ramp down and she walked right back in and that was it.”
“The other elephant was very happy to see her,” Melvin said.
About 10 minutes passed from when she was startled to when she was back in the trailer, he said.
“She come back and she performed last night and everything was good,” Melvin said. “I mean the show went on, as they say.”
At least two animal rights groups — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and Compassion Works International — criticized the incident, saying it endangered the elephant and the public and could have been avoided if circuses didn't force animals to perform.
Viola and the Jordan World Circus have performances on Wednesday in the state capital Helena.
Dupuy reported from New York City; AP reporter Sarah Brumfield contributed from Silver Spring, Maryland.
This story has been corrected to show that the elephant performed on Tuesday, not Monday.
This image provided by Matayah Utrayle-Shaylene Smith shows an escaped elephant crossing the road in Butte, Mont., on Tuesday, April 17, 2024. The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath leading the pachyderm to break through a fence and take a brief walk, stopping noontime traffic on the city's busiest street before before being loaded back into a trailer. (Matayah Utrayle-Shaylene Smith via AP)
This image provided by Matayah Utrayle-Shaylene Smith shows an escaped elephant crossing the road in Butte, Mont., on Tuesday, April 17, 2024. The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath leading the pachyderm to break through a fence and take a brief walk, stopping noontime traffic on the city's busiest street before before being loaded back into a trailer. (Matayah Utrayle-Shaylene Smith via AP)
This image provided by Olivia LaBeau shows an escaped elephant crossing the road in Butte, Mont., on Tuesday, April 17, 2024. The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath leading the pachyderm to break through a fence and take a brief walk, stopping noontime traffic on the city's busiest street before before being loaded back into a trailer. (Olivia LaBeau via AP)
This image provided by Olivia LaBeau shows an escaped elephant crossing the road in Butte, Mont., on Tuesday, April 17, 2024. The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath leading the pachyderm to break through a fence and take a brief walk, stopping noontime traffic on the city's busiest street before before being loaded back into a trailer.(Olivia LaBeau via AP)
This image provided by Matayah Utrayle-Shaylene Smith shows an escaped elephant crossing the road in Butte, Mont., on Tuesday, April 17, 2024. The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath leading the pachyderm to break through a fence and take a brief walk, stopping noontime traffic on the city's busiest street before before being loaded back into a trailer. (Matayah Utrayle-Shaylene Smith via AP)
