Animals in Entertainment

Reading the story of a baby elephant in a Chinese zoo who wept for five hours after his mother twice tried to kill him yesterday almost made us cry.

Tens of thousands of you have said “No” to bullfighting and sent messages to the Spanish embassy demanding that the cruel sport not be granted legal protection.

This 60-second video made by our friends at PETA Germany compiles shocking footage of animals being hurt in the name of entertainment.

Weymouth’s Sea Life aquarium launched an appeal to its visitors asking them not to eat octopuses because they are “as intelligent as the average pet dog”.

PETA appealed to the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) President Michel Platini asking him to ban the ritual slaughter of animals in European football.

A senior zookeeper at Bristol Zoo has allegedly lashed out violently and punched a fur seal, simply because the animal put a flipper on a set of scales.

Mali has spent 35 years at the Manila Zoo, where she endures intense confinement, boredom, loneliness and isolation in an area fraction of the size of her natural habitat.

A victory for compassion in Belgium came this week, as the government ratified a law to ban the use of wild animals in circuses.

After a public consultation and messages from thousands of compassionate people, the government announced that it would ban the use of all wild animals in circuses in England by 2015.

Bulls die bloody deaths in Pamplona. At the ‘running of the bulls’, animals are herded staright to the bullfighting arena. Our striking protest highlights the cruelty.