Animals in Entertainment: The Circus

These old Circus posters depict animals made to perform painful, dangerous, abnormal stunts for our "amusement." Today, many circuses around the world still use animals as a form of entertainment and many of the animals are captured in the wild.

Campaigners say animals should be banned from circuses and there needs to be a change in the law to prevent wild animals suffering undignified and unnatural conditions. Campaigners have long argued that the use of animals in circuses should be banned because they are kept in areas too small for them, causing life-long mental torment. Many also suffer physical abuse during training and practices, they say, including an unnatural lack of exercise.