Superior to humans, elephants, on average, can remember a specific event, person, or animal for almost thirty years. Due to this, it is hard to believe people can easily torture them for their own amusement, not only because it is cruel and wrong, but because the elephant will remember the torture for the rest of his/her life. In the movie Water for Elephants, which was supposed to be about animal abuse awareness in the circus industry, had a team who was supposed to be protecting the lead animal actress, Tai, but was instead torturing her via electric shock. It is wrong for the people who were in charge of caring for the animal to be mistreating her; this proves animal actors should not be in the movie business. Animals, like Tai, should not …show more content…
The size of Tai’s enclosure was never released, but this may be one of the few average things about Tai’s case. “Even the biggest elephant pen cannot offer the space, diversity, and natural ecosystem that elephants need to thrive. Captive elephants cannot engage in sustained and varied exercise and typically endure long hours of standing on hard surfaces, often amid their own waste. These conditions are major contributors to foot infections and arthritis, the leading causes of death and euthanasia among captive elephants.” (PETA.) Not only do the elephants not have any room to move, but they also have to suffer the consequences of others putting them through terrible living conditions. The average elephant pen is at a zoo, so a build-a-pen for a constantly moving around animal actor has to be smaller than this. Keith Lindsay, member of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project, says “It is much better to watch films of real elephants behaving naturally—walking, feeding, playing, mating, fighting—in truly natural social groups of up to hundreds of animals ranging widely across ecosystems than to see miserable captive elephants standing around in a bare enclosure, no matter how ‘naturalistic’ the landscaping design may be.” (PETA.) Even the general public wishes for free elephants due to their knowledge on how terribly they are treated when they aren't free. One of the sadder parts of this is that for most animal closures, there are natural aspects or scenery that makes the habitat resemble that of an elephant's; Tai's enclosure is compact and made from