An elephant handler in Thailand was fired from his job after he was seen repeatedly beating an Asian elephant with a hooked metal bar. The 18-year-old elephant, named Jumbo Chan Chao, received a ...

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced Thursday that it will phase out elephants from its performances by 2018, a decision that comes as the circus faces public scrutiny in Richmond ...

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The bullhook — a rod with a blunt or pointed hook at one end — has been used for centuries to get elephants to do humans' bidding. And although the tool is now associated with some of the worst abuses ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council has voted to ban bullhooks — the spike-tipped pokers used to train and control elephants. City News Service says the council's vote on Wednesday also ...

Most of us went to circuses. We didn't know that elephants would do tricks because they had been trained to do those tricks through torture with the bullhook and beatings to intimidate them, while ...

The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), a non-profit that is also an “independent accrediting organization for the best zoos and aquariums in America and the world” is phasing out the use of an ...