Circuses and zoos are not joyful places for the majestic beautiful animals. Specifically elephants, who are abused and tortured. Elephants are constantly ripped from their mothers, beaten with bull hooks, and chained in confined areas , only to perform activities that elephants would never perform in their natural environment. New elephants are being brought to these venues and abused behind the public eye, we cannot change the trauma that has occurred in the past, but we have the power to end the abuse.