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On August 20, 1994, the poor, suffering 20-year-old female elephant Tyke, who on several previous attempts tried to escape but was recaptured and kept in captivity instead of being relocated to a wildlife park or rescue, being abused and beaten for years as a circus elephant, including from her alcohol- and cocaine-addicted trainer who had been the focus of numerous previous complaints of animal abuse, escapes from the Honolulu circus arena and dies bellowing on the streets of Honolulu from nerve destruction and brain hemorrhaging after the pig cops of Honolulu bravely pump 87 bullets into her crumbling, blood-soaked, sobbing body (August 20, 1994).  REMEMBER TYKE!

On August 20, 1994, the poor, suffering 20-year-old female elephant Tyke, who on several previous attempts tried to escape but was recaptured and kept in captivity instead of being relocated to a wildlife park or rescue, being abused and beaten for years as a circus elephant, including from her alcohol- and cocaine-addicted trainer who had been the focus of numerous previous complaints of animal abuse, escapes from the Honolulu circus arena and dies bellowing on the streets of Honolulu from nerve destruction and brain hemorrhaging after the pig cops of Honolulu bravely pump 87 bullets into her crumbling, blood-soaked, sobbing body (August 20, 1994).  REMEMBER TYKE!

[[File: Tyke.jpg|thumb|right|300px|<small>Remember Tyke.  August 20, 1994.</small>]]

[[File:Tyke.jpg|thumb|right|300px|<small>Remember Tyke.  August 20, 1994.</small>]]

===Stoney the Elephant===

===Stoney the Elephant===

After the ladies arrived in Chicago, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals kept track of their well-being and knew their health was declining.  This was easily predicted.  The cold winters had forced zoo keepers to keep the animals indoors in a small-sized jail, with its orthopedically and medically dangerous concrete floors.  When massive animals take a step in the wild, natural environment, the grasses, sod, and soil muffle the concussion that occurs when the foot lands.  When walking on concrete or pavement, no such shock- absorbing effect occurs.  The damaging effects exceed the orthopedic ones.  When that force hits the elephant's body, the concussion is transmitted through the legs, and upward through all the organs of the body, rupturing their cells.  This occurs notably among the delicate cells of the alveoli of the lungs.  That is the source of the well-documented prevalence of deaths due to tuberculosis, a disease of the lungs, among captive elephants and other large mammals. As the many organs in the body necessary for digestion are also damaged, emaciation is also a common occurrence.  Damage to brain tissues results in dementia.  Ruptured capillaries results in internal bleeding and anemia.  

After the ladies arrived in Chicago, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals kept track of their well-being and knew their health was declining.  This was easily predicted.  The cold winters had forced zoo keepers to keep the animals indoors in a small-sized jail, with its orthopedically and medically dangerous concrete floors.  When massive animals take a step in the wild, natural environment, the grasses, sod, and soil muffle the concussion that occurs when the foot lands.  When walking on concrete or pavement, no such shock- absorbing effect occurs.  The damaging effects exceed the orthopedic ones.  When that force hits the elephant's body, the concussion is transmitted through the legs, and upward through all the organs of the body, rupturing their cells.  This occurs notably among the delicate cells of the alveoli of the lungs.  That is the source of the well-documented prevalence of deaths due to tuberculosis, a disease of the lungs, among captive elephants and other large mammals. As the many organs in the body necessary for digestion are also damaged, emaciation is also a common occurrence.  Damage to brain tissues results in dementia.  Ruptured capillaries results in internal bleeding and anemia.  

[[File:Peachesand WankieinSanDiego.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Remember Tatima (October 16, 2004), Peaches (January 17, 2005), and Wankie (May 1, 2005).  Top:  Peaches (left), then 52, seen with Wankie, her 33-year-old companion, in 2002 at the San Diego Wild Animal Park where they had resided together with others for more than 30 years.]]

[[File:Peachesand WankieinSanDiego.jpg|thumb|right|200px|<small>Remember Tatima (October 16, 2004), Peaches (January 17, 2005), and Wankie (May 1, 2005).  Top:  Peaches (left), then 52, seen with Wankie, her 33-year-old companion, in 2002 at the San Diego Wild Animal Park where they had resided together with others for more than 30 years.</small>]]

[[File:PeachesandWankieJailedinLincolnParkZoo.jpg|200px|thumb|right|The two in jail at the corrupt and frigid Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.]]

[[File:PeachesandWankieJailedinLincolnParkZoo.jpg|thumb|right|200px|<small>The two in jail at the corrupt and frigid Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.</small>]]

   

   

Tatima arrived with a crippling left rear leg injury, which left the leg badly swollen.  She was apparently never treated while in Chicago.  As the social outsider, a common occurrence when placing three elephants together, Tatima was shunned.  Wankie spent all of her days at the Lincoln Park Zoo and Crematorium neurotically swaying and bobbing from side to side in her cramped, shared space.  All three ladies suffered significant weight loss residing in their cramped cell.  

Tatima arrived with a crippling left rear leg injury, which left the leg badly swollen.  She was apparently never treated while in Chicago.  As the social outsider, a common occurrence when placing three elephants together, Tatima was shunned.  Wankie spent all of her days at the Lincoln Park Zoo and Crematorium neurotically swaying and bobbing from side to side in her cramped, shared space.  All three ladies suffered significant weight loss residing in their cramped cell.