The Thailand Tiger Temple is a sanctuary for wild animals including tigers. The monks who run the temple were accused of animal abuse towards the tigers. The monks ended up denying all of the accusations. The Ringling Brothers Circus also abuses their animals such as their tigers. The tiger 's handlers forces them to perform by using whips, tight collars, muzzles, electric prods, and bullhooks. Thailand Tiger Temple vs Ringling Brothers Circus What is the Thailand Tiger Temple? The Thailand Tiger Temple is located in Thailand and was founded in 1994 as a forest temple and a sanctuary for wild animals including tigers. The tiger temple has Bengal tigers and hybrid breeds. They received its first tiger cub in …show more content…
Visitors are charged about $16 or more if they decide to pet or feed the tigers. 137 tigers from the tiger temple were seized and transferred to animal refuges. This reason being is because the monks who run the temple have been accused of animal abuse, drugging, trafficking into the illegal wildlife trade and the disappearance of three tigers. Former workers said the tigers were beaten. Not well fed, in need of veterinary care and kept in small concrete cages. The monks denied all of the accusations. The Ringling Brothers Circus does many of the same things as the tiger temple, but some of the ways they abuse their tigers are different. The circus owns tigers, but they also own elephants and lions. The animals only perform because they are afraid of what will happen if they don’t. The handlers force the animals by abusing them using whips, tight collars, muzzles, electric prods, and bullhooks. They are often abused by the handlers removing their food or being hit if they do not perform correctly. There have …show more content…
While in transit, animals are confined in boxcars, trailers and trucks. During transit, tigers do not have access to food, water, and veterinary care. They are forced to live in tiny, cramped cages, no bigger than them. The cages remain chained in arena basements or parking lots. Since they are forced to live in cages, they are also forced to eat, drink, sleep, defecate and urinate in the same place. The tigers don’t receive any exercise besides, when they perform. This reason is because they are held captive. Captive results in the tigers being overweight, while the others suffer from psychological damage. The unnatural environment causes them to pace back and forth and sometimes mutilate themselves. According to PETA (n.d) in the article “6 BIG Reasons Why Big Cats Don’t Belong in Circuses,” “Tigers are naturally semi-nocturnal and love the water” (para.4). Semi-nocturnal means animals sleep during the day and are active during the nighttime. In the circus, the tigers are forced to perform during the day and they are not allowed to sleep when they want to. Tiger also love water, but they are not given access to any type of watering hole. In the wild, tigers grow up with their mothers, but the Ringling Brothers keep the tigers separated long before causing them to have emotional distress for both the mothers and
Live theatre has been an important method of entertainment, self-expression and storytelling for centuries and still plays an important part in modern society for the same reasons however not all performances will successfully entertain, express or tell their story. The first and one of the most vital features of a successful show is the performances of the actors. To assess the performance of an actor there are many aspects that one must consider, I believe the most important to be vocalisation, physicalisation and characterisation. I will be critiquing The Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo, the story of the lives and afterlives of the people and animals caught in the middle of a war torn country, as performed by Persona Collective at the Annexe Theatre on the 10th-12th of April, on the performances of John Swindle and Amanda Phillips.
What is the Thailand Tiger Temple? The Thailand Tiger Temple is located in Thailand and was founded in 1994 as a forest temple and a sanctuary for wild animals including tigers. The tiger temple has Bengal tigers and hybrid breeds. They received its first tiger cub in 1999 and now they have 137 tigers as of 2016. Visitors are charged about $16 or more if they decide to pet or feed the tigers. 137 tigers from the tiger temple were seized and transferred to animal refuges. This reason being is because the monks who run the temple have been accused of animal abuse, drugging, trafficking into the illegal wildlife trade and the disappearance of three tigers. Former workers said the tigers were beaten. Not well fed, in need of veterinary care and
Ringling Bros 2010, Circus Animal Abuse, video, YouTube, October 23, viewed 18 April 2014, .
Although many people are hurt and killed from wild animals that are kept as pets. But the animals suffer from hurt they receive from their owner. In paragraph 6 of ,Wild Animals Aren’t Pets, the author talks about how dangerous the wild animals are but also talks about the dangers of the animals being hurt. “This week in Zanesville, it was the animals themselves including 18 rare Bengal tigers, who became innocent victims.” This shows the owners of the rare tigers began abusing their animals. People are not the only ones getting
"Circuses: Three Rings of Abuse." PETA. PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, 2014. Web. 11 Apr. 2014.
In accordance with the Welfare of Wild Animals in Travelling Circuses (England) Regulations 2012, a travelling circus is defined as ‘a circus in which travels from place to place for the purpose of giving performances, displays or exhibitions’ and ‘a circus as part of which wild animals are kept or introduced (whether for the purpose of performance, display or otherwise).
“Stick that hook into ‘em… when you hear that screaming, then you know you got their attention.” – Circus elephant trainer caught on tape (Circus Animals). All across the world, animals used in circuses such as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey live a horrific life in which they are dominated, confined, and violently trained. They are routinely beaten, shocked, and whipped until they learn to perform tricks that make no sense to them. (Meet the Elephants). Many people are not aware of the harsh reality the elephants and other circus animals face just so circuses can make money. The way these circuses treat these animals that have been ripped from their homes
The Lotus Temple is located in Delhi, India, and serves as a major tourist attraction for
Animals should not be held captive in zoos because it is inhumane and unfair to the animals. There are so many records of terrible things that have happened to animals in zoos over the past few centuries, the go under the radar too often. Too few people even know about these animal care atrocities, and therefore the New York Times decided to bring light upon this situation. The Times did a first-of-its-kind analysis of 390 elephant fatalities at accredited U.S. zoos over the past 50 years (Berens 3). It found that most of the elephants died from injury or disease linked to conditions of their captivity, from chronic foot problems caused by standing on hard surfaces to musculoskeletal disorders from inactivity caused by being penned or chained for days and weeks at a time.
And this isn’t the only time a captive animal has turned on its trainer. Working with a predator that kills even when it’s not hunting is taking a risk lions can be trained but they cannot be tamed. in 2010 two lions turned on their trainer Oleksie Pinko during a show in the Ukraine, Pinko walked away with only minor injuries. No matter how long you work with exotic animals they will always be unpredictable and dangerous, Roy Horn of the Siegfried and Roy duo worked with tigers for most of his life, but however in 2003 Roy was attacked by a seven year old white tiger named Montecore. In 2008, a liger at Safari's Animal Sanctuary in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma killed a volunteer, thirty-two year old Peter Getz.
Ordinarily, in nearly all zoos, animals are being harmed. This is unacceptable and should not be condoned. As Tim Zimmermann has said and published, “ those certain animals simply do not do well in zoos, and many facilities, even employ antidepressants.” This shows dissatisfactory with animals. Did you know that zoos’ main focus is how much money they generate more than the health of the animals? Also, zoos do not provide animals enough space to live; there are numerous ways that they can help this problem.
The life of a circus animal is hard and demanding. It is not an acceptable way of life for an animal. Circuses would quickly lose their appeal if the public were more aware of their mistreatments of these animals. Many circuses do not have much money and as a result the animals suffer from inadequate care. These animals spend most of their time in small cages used for transportation. The Animal Welfare Act provides cage requirements, but many circuses fail to follow this law. Even the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus was cited for 65 violations over a two-year period according to Florence Lambert. When traveling, animals spend hours, even days between sites in confinement..
The article “Animals Used as Entertainment” lists rodeos, circuses, bullfighting, horse racing, cockfighting, dog fighting, and zoos as examples of the many ways animals are used in entertainment. Circuses and zoos are the two most relevant forms of animal mistreatment. Both of these are sources of entertainment for children and adults. Zoos declare that the...
Zoo animals are usually kept in very cramped enclosures and do not behave like their wild counterparts. Polar bears, for example, are given about 10 metres of walking space whereas in their Arctic home they roam for many hundreds of kilometres. Similarly, primates, big cats and birds are often confined in cages where they lack exercise and stimulation. Many animals develop unnatural habits such as pacing back and forth or swaying from side to side.
For the most part, circuses do not publicize the treatment their animals receive. The most probable explanation for this is that the animals are abused as a means of training