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Animal Rights Groups Accuse Virginia-Based Circus of Mistreatment.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2003

By Rich McKay and Sean Mussenden, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 25--Kenny the elephant, too weak to stand or eat, died in Jacksonville, bleeding from an infection after performing his third Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey show of the day, according to a report released Wednesday by three animal-protection groups.

The ASPCA, The Fund for Animals and the Animal Welfare Institute report also alleges that another elephant, Benjamin, was abused by a trainer with a "bull-hook" and drowned in a fit of fear while swimming in a Houston pond.

The two deaths -- Kenny's in 1998 and Benjamin's one year later -- are evidence the 133-year-old circus systematically abuses and neglects its elephants, according...

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