Wilkes-Barre, UNITED STATES
Elephants perform in Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus' "Circus Extreme" show at the Mohegan Sun...
Elephants perform in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. While glad that the Ringling elephants are leaving their traveling days behind, animal activists are critical of the company's Polk City, Florida, facility that will serve as their retirement home. "(It's) nothing more than a breeding facility, where elephants are chained for approximately 16 hours a day or more in concrete-floored barns and still beaten with bullhooks," PETA's Arth said. "When they're allowed outside, they're confined to small, virtually barren paddocks." REUTERS/Andrew Kelly