It's not possible to get an elephant to preform extremely unnatural tricks without beating it with a bullhook. If you don't believe they use them just look at

It's not possible to get an elephant to preform extremely unnatural tricks without beating it with a bullhook. If you don't believe they use them just look at pictures of the shows. The handlers are holding bullhook. Here's some pics - http://www.thedodo.com/the-one-simple-reason-you-shou-604357583.amp.html http://www.thedodo.com/the-one-simple-reason-you-shou-604357... In fact the main reason elephants were retired from Ringling Bros in the first place was because cities were making handling elephants using bullhooks illegal. That prevented Ringling Bros from ever preforming in certain cities again if they kept the elephant acts. More and more cities were joining on and then the entire state of California made handling elephants with bullhooks illegal. California, Population: 38.8 million. Ringling could have either given up California or given up the elephants, they picked California. Even if they weren't beaten with bullhooks, a circus environment doesn't come close to meeting an elephant's needs.