Frustration of Captive Animals can Turn to Aggression

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• Ashton Circus elephant Abu killed 3 circus employees, one in 1974, one in 1983, and one in 1987.
  
  
• Sole Brothers' elephants Betty and Jodie have killed a journalist and a spectator respectively.
  
  
• 1981 circus elephant Cardie was shot after knocking down his trainer and crushing him with his head and another elephant, Toby, crushed a man to death by ramming him against the wall of a truck.
  
  
• 1983 Sole Brothers' lion tamer, Joe Eronis, needed 80 stitches after being attacked by a lion. In 1984 the proprietor of Circus Royale, Frank Gasser, needed 64 stitches after being attacked by a lion.
  
  
• 1988 an animal handler from Robert and Alby Perry's circus was hospitalised after being mauled by a tiger. In February 1989 Ashton's lion keeper, Brett Hall, needed 170 stitches after being mauled by a tiger called Moscow, who had been reared by the circus since birth.
  
  
• June 1991 circus owner Bruce Russell was mauled by one of his lions during a photo session.
  
  
• December1993 Ashton’s' lion tamer Charlie Wang Quay received multiple stitches and lacerations when a lioness attacked him during a performance.
  
  
• May 1980 a lion in Lennon Brothers' Circus attacked and injured a girl, in spite of the 'precaution' of having had his claws removed as a cub.
  
  
• 1984 a young child received severe injuries to the abdomen when attacked by a horse belonging to Sole Brothers.
  
  
• June 1994 the child of an Ashton's Circus member was attacked by a tigon. The child lost one arm and received serious injuries to the other.