A sculpture depicting a tearful elephant in chains that was designed in New York and became the center of a federal lawsuit in Washington was put on display in Union Square Park today, with the blessing of New York City officials.The fiberglass sculpture, “Ella PhantzPeril,” shows a circus elephant with its front left leg in shackles.
Elephants are at the heart of a PETA campaign against the use of elephants in circuses.Feld Entertainment, which runs the Ringling Brothers circus, vigorously disagrees. The company says in a statement [pdf] on its Web site.In 2005, the circus gave $180,000 to the zoo for research on endotheliotropic herpes viruses, a threat to the the Asian elephant today, and announced an important partnership with the Fort Worth Zoo. read more
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