PETA has offered to buy a state-of-the-art, high-tech animatronic elephant to give to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, if Ringling will retire the circus's current elephants from working at the circus.
PETA has long been at odds with Ringling over the circus's abusive treatment of elephants, tigers, and other animals. Ringling has been fined, warned, and cited by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for elephant deaths and other incidents.
The animatronic elephant that PETA offers to buy for Ringling would be similar to the animatronic dinosaurs currently in use in the popular "Walking With Dinosaurs, the Live Experience" show, which is touring the U.S. PETA points out that substituting Ringling's live elephants with animatronic ones would provide all the thrills that kids love without harming the animals.
"The days of hauling elephants and other animals across the country in chains and cramped cages and forcing them to perform under threat of punishment are fading," says PETA Director Debbie Leahy. "PETA's offer gives Ringling the perfect opportunity to prove its tired claim that it cares by switching to animatronic elephants and retiring the old, ailing live elephants that it currently uses."
Source: http://www.circuses.com
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