Animal Defenders International (Adi) is calling for the end of use of wild animals in traveling circuses. The proposed ban comes after a semi-truck pulling a trailer of four elephants on Sunday night ran off Interstate 10 in south Mississippi. Three of the elephants, which belong to Cole Brothers Circus of the Stars, were unloaded while the trailer was unhooked from the damaged truck. Kurt Necaise, the incident commander for West Hancock County Fire and Rescue, said the fourth was too angry to unload. Of the accident, Tim Phillips, the Vice President of Adi, said “It is lucky that the animals nor people appear to have been seriously injured. Although [ Read More ]
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- 10/16/2012
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
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