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Wild animal shows are on their way out. Circuses are shutting down or dropping their animal acts, and hundreds of venues and dozens of communities have banned traveling animal acts. Yet, some fairs still appear to support the exploitation of wild animals—including tigers, monkeys, and sea lions—for mere entertainment.
Tigers have home ranges of hundreds of miles in which they roam, swim, climb, choose their mates, and raise their young. But those exploited for fairs are carted from city to city inside cramped transport cages and displayed or forced to perform tricks that have no meaning to them. Other fair acts cruelly force monkeys who are tethered to dogs to “race” around a track or truck sea lions who would normally swim for miles in the ocean to county fairs around the country. From the violent cruelty exhibitors use to train wild animals to the basic quality-of-life issues that wild animals face when they’re subjected to the rigors of constant travel and performances, these exhibits need to end.
Please, use your voice to urge the fairs below to leave wild animals out of their upcoming events.