![]() She then lay in a pool of blood on the streets of Hawaii for over two hours, until she finally bled to death. Unable to calm the elephant, local police eventually opened fire and shot her over 80 times before she finally fell to the ground. Tyke ran for her life through the streets of Hawaii for over half an hour. She also seriously injured her groomer, then busted through a chained metal gate and ran out onto the street. Unable to take the abuse any longer, she snapped and killed her trainer by stomping on him repeatedly. When they finally let her out she was immediately forced into performing in from of an audience. In August 1994, Tyke spent several days locked in the hull of a tanker ship on a long ocean journey from California to Hawaii. Tyke was tortured during this time, forced to wear a degrading clown costume and dance for the audience, and even forced to ride a giant tricycle. and for twenty years abused and exploited. She was sold into the circus industry in the U.S. Tyke was a wild-born African elephant captured from the wild in Mozambique when just a baby. This circus ban has been a hot-button issue in the state of Hawaii ever since the tragic death of Tyke the elephant nearly 25 years ago. have passed legislation to address circus cruelty, while the states of Rhode Island and California have banned the use of bullhooks to control performing animals. More than 135 towns and cities across the U.S. The only other state with a complete ban on exotic animal acts is New Jersey, while Illinois and New York forbid the use of elephants in performances. as Hawaii just became the second state to ban exotic animals in the circus. ![]()
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