Behind all the fancy costumes, colorful pageantry, and music lies an appalling secret. Animals forced to travel and perform with circuses lead lives of misery. Encouraging the trade of exotic and endangered species, the majority of these animals are stolen from the wild. Through fear, beatings, and hunger the animals are forced to perform. The popular tools of the trade consist of bull hooks, whips, chains, and electronic shock prods! (Speakingoutforanimals.org)

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