Tarra The Elephant Essay

Have you ever been to the circus and seen the amazing tricks the elephants and other animals do? They may look cool but these elephants aren’t born knowing how to do these tricks, they are tortured to learn them with whips, bullhooks, chains, bush knives, ear halters, and ropes to control them to do whatever the mahout (trainers) wants them to do. These wild animals are not meant to be tamed but to live a happy life in the wild.
1Bears, elephants, tigers, and other animals do not voluntarily ride bicycles, stand on their heads, balance on balls, or jump through rings of fire. They don't perform these and other difficult tricks because they want to; they perform them because they're afraid of what will happen if they don't.
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She stands at 8’ 2”, weighs 8700 pounds, and she loves watermelon. Tarra was seen many times holding a stick with her trunk drawing in the dirt and would spend wrestles nights doing so on the floor in her barn. They eventually gave her paint brushes and she would enjoy painting and sticking her trunk in the paint and blowing it everywhere, but each piece of artwork was never finished until she added her very distinctive signature. In 2003 bella wondered on to the sanctuary property and instantly became best friends with Tarra, they were in separable, Bella would even roll over on her back and let Tarra pet her belly with her Giant foot. They would play in the snow together, swim in the ponds, and just explore together. The size difference did not matter to them, They were the ultimate best of friends. When Bella had gotten a spinal cord injury she couldn’t move her legs and couldn’t even move her tail, for the next three weeks Tarra stood in the same spot outside the office just waiting for Bella, so they decided to bring Bella out to see Tarra and Bellas tail started to wag and Tara was very excited, they continued to do this till Bella was able to walk again. In 2011 Bella had passed away from what they think was a coyote attack, Tarra brought