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Primates and tigers and bears unite! Circus animals all share a common cause: rebellion. Or so says the Global Action Network, which is out to put an end to the use of animals for human entertainment. Unhappy circus animals, they claim, are ripe for violent rebellion against trainers and audience members. "Animals living in such a gruesome environment naturally have a lot of behaviour problems," said Mari Laulumaa of Global Action, which is organizing a demonstration outside the Molson Centre on December 26 to protest the upcoming Super Circus. "The animals rebel because it is instinctive for wild animals to do so under those circumstances." Those circumstances include constant travel in confined spaces and training that consists of "being whacked, smacked or shocked with an electric prod." Global Action Network has chronicled well over 100 incidents of circus animals flipping out and injuring or killing trainers and bystanders. Animal circuses are banned in five countries around the world and in over a dozen municipalities in Canada. --Dominique Ritter
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