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BUSINESS NEWS - Lions, tigers, camels and pythons - you don't have to like them to recognise they don't come with batteries and are not playthings. Animals obliged to 'perform' teach us nothing about how inherently wonderful they are. Despite what circus owners will tell you, there is nothing educational about circuses (or zoos).

Of course, performing animals cannot go back to the wild, but they can live out their days at a real sanctuary, without performance training and demands, and without interaction with humans, travel, noise, lights and prison bars.

Circus animals spend most of their lives in cages. They are either in travelling cages or larger cages when at a venue, for almost the year through, year in and year out.

Lions in the wild walk an average of two hours a day and can cover 10 to 50 kilometres a day. They usually roam a territory 160km². How far do you think they can go as circus prisoners?

While they cannot roam far in a sanctuary, they certainly have more adequate surroundings or forced human interaction, and are left to their own devices.

With incredible documentary footage of animals in their own habitat easily available, they are naturally entertaining, and we do indeed learn about them.

We do NOT need to watch animals perform mindless tricks to learn about them. We encourage supporting animal-free circuses!