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- There's nothing magical about using wild animals for tricks. Animal Defenders International investigated into the Fercos Brothers, a circus where animals are confined to cages, and subject to abuse and suffering in order to perform tricks. The circus toured in South America when the footage was filmed.
- Raw footage of elephants subject to cruel training and suffering for movies like "Water for Elephants".
- During an investigation done by the ADI, it is revealed that animals are forced to live their miserable lives in barns when circuses are not touring. Some animals are denied water for many hours a day. Many other animals are tethered into tiny cells and pens, and thus unable to turn around or lie down in comfortably way. The animals' welfare are completely ignored. This video urges people to avoid circuses that use live animals.
- Have Trunk Will Travel is a supplier that trains elephants for movies, advertising, personal appearances, elephant rides, fairs and other public appearances. There, elephants are subject to cruel training, by getting shot with stun guns and beaten with bull hooks. Elephants are chained up to 12 hours a day, and can barely take a step forward or backward.
- For bears, life is hell in circuses and county fairs. Bears in Texas-based James and Tepa Hall spend about 90% of their time in tiny cells in a prison truck, and are made to wear clothes and muzzles, dance and perform spectacular tricks for up to an hour a day as they tour the United States.
- Over seven months, 30 fur farms, seven hours of footage and one and a half thousand photographs, Animal Defenders International investigated a random sample of Finnish fur farms. This investigation exposes the terrible suffering that is part and parcel of the fur industry.
- Over the Easter holiday weekend in Ayacucho, Peru, there was an event called "Pascua Toro", in which terrified young bulls and cows were dragged from a truck and tormented by a screaming, shouting drunken mob in the streets. Animal Defenders International (ADI), along with other animal campaigners from Peru, have monitored and filmed the event, and condemned it as sickeningly brutal, barbaric.
- In the Korean Monkey School, Animal Defenders International goes behind the scenes to reveal the cruel training and suffering monkeys are forced to endure, in order to perform in "funny" shows for unsuspecting but happy people.
- Animal Defenders International (ADI) investigated inside UCCU Events Center, where elephants used for children's rides ran berserk as workers tried to control them with bullhooks, metal bars and stun guns. While they weren't performing, these elephants were chained up and out of their minds.
- Lions who have been rescued by ADI from a circus life in Bolivia are enjoying their life at a sanctuary.
- In 2014, the Jalatoro festival was banned by the the authorities in Huamanga province, Ayacucho. However, the cruel festival still goes on, now under the name Pascua Toro. The event is disgraceful for bulls that are abused and tormented in front of screaming, drunken and thuggish people in the streets of Ayacucho.
- This documentary is about lions and tigers in ADI Rescue Center. Animal Defenders International did investigations and campaigns that resulted with challenging rescue missions, to save the big cats from Mozambique in 1996 up to date and their latest arrivals from a Portuguese circus in 2007.
- What do you want for Christmas dinner? A terrified, crushed or kicked turkey? Prior to Christmas 2018, Animal Defenders International went undercover at a British free range turkey supplier, where turkeys are revealed to be subjected to terror and abuse. Not only do they live short, miserable lives, but they are also treated with brutality during their final hours of life, because they are grabbed and crushed into transport crated in order to be sent to slaughter. This video proves the fact just because a supplier is a free range farm, it doesn't mean it's 100% cruelty-free.
- Animal Defenders International went undercover inside Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Europe's largest primate facility that is located in Netherlands. There, primates are living in misery, pain and suffering, and are subjected to fatal cruelty and abuse before experiments even begin.
- This is the amazing story about how Toto the chimpanzee was rescued after two decades in South American circus, and returned to Africa.
- An ex-circus employee was called in to make a special appeal for circus workers to report cruelty. Tom Rider had worked for Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, Carson and Barnes, and Circus Barelli. In 2000 he travelled by boat from the US to Spain with a Chipperfield Enterprises elephant act from Ringlings. He then travelled to Holland, Germany and France. Using footage from all of these circuses and suppliers, ADI prepared a video "Don't look the other way: Speak out circus suffering", featuring Tom. Leaflets, posters and videos were produced in English, Spanish and Italian.
- Tilin the baboon has lived in circus for many years, until Bolivia has banned circuses from using animals. Then, Tilin and a group of lions have been handed over to ADI in order to get a new home.
- For most people, monkey shows may look funny and exciting at first sight. However, according to an investigation Animal Defenders International did into the Korean Monkey School, monkeys live in horrible conditions and endure cruel training, in order to perform in such "funny" and "exciting" shows. Watch this video, and decide if such show is really "harmless" as the "monkey school" wants you to believe.
- Each year in February, animals are subject to cruelty and suffering, as they are used for rides and displays at the Riverside County Fair and Date Festival in California.
- The decisions by NASA and Russia's RKA to conduct experiments on monkeys as part of space research and plans for manned missions to Mars have sparked international reactions from Animal Defenders International and other organizations. Thanks to their publicized campaigns, several prominent and respected figures in the industry have made a 180-degree turn and are now opposing these cruel experiments.
- In 1993, Animal Defenders International and International Animal Welfare Alliance launched a campaign called "Circus Madness", to reveal animal abuse and suffering in circuses around the world. Professionals and experts explain in details what animals had to endure.
- Have Trunk Will Travel is a California-based supplier that provides elephants for feature films and other media. Animal Defenders International did an undercover investigation inside this facility, where elephants are subject to beating and electroshock during training sessions and routine husbandry.