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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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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GUWAHATI, India (AP) — For months an injured male elephant has been frequenting a village on the outskirts of India's northeastern Assam state in search of food, bringing it into contact with people living in the area.
The elephant often breaks into shops and helps itself to food on the shelves, prompting locals to erect steel fences and concertina wires in front of their houses and roadside kiosks. Villagers have been providing the animal food and water, but its frequent visits — at least twice a day — halt traffic sometimes, forcing locals to shoo the elephant away.
According to wildlife officials, the elephant has been unable to go back to the nearby Amchang Reserve forest after injuring its leg few months ago. They say it has also been facing resistance from other elephants whenever it attempts to join a herd.
Elephants are increasingly coming into contact with people in India, as the human population of 1.4 billion soars and cities and towns grow at the expense of jungles and other elephant habitats. In Assam, which has more than 5,000 wild Asian elephants, there have been many incidents in recent years where wild elephants have entered villages, destroyed crops and even killed people.
Wildlife activists say human encroachment has forced elephants out of their natural habitats, triggering conflicts with locals.
Conservationists have urged the government to prevent encroachments and create corridors that the elephants can use to move across forests in search of food.
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This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
Rangers guide a wild elephant back into the forest from a nearby village along Amchang wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
A forest officer chases an injured male tusker away from residential areas near Amchang wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
A resident keeps guard, watching for wild elephants, outside his home near Amchang wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
A wild elephant walks past an army camp near Amchang wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Forest officials chase an injured male tusker away from residential areas near Amchang wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
An injured male tusker, searching for food, stands on a road near Amchang wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
A wild elephant walks through the gate of an army camp along Amchang wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
An injured male tusker walks away from a fire set off by residents to ward it away, near Amchang wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Residents complain to forest officers about the presence of an injured male tusker in their neighborhood, near Amchang wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Children walk near barbwire installed on the perimeter of a shop to deter wild elephants near Amchang wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
An injured male tusker swings his trunk around a motorbike on a road near Amchang wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
People gather to watch a wild elephant near Amchang wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
An injured male tusker walks past barbed wire installed to protect residential areas from wild elephants in Amchang wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Residents look at an injured wild elephant walking outside their house in a village near Amchang wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
