PETA, Ringling Bros. clash over elephant treatment

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A decades-experienced elephant trainer with Ringling Bros./Barnum & Bailey’s left a notarized letter and photos to be opened after he died, documenting long years of elephant treatment that troubled him and his wife. David Montgomery wrote the story for yesterday’s Washington Post; he takes us inside the story PETA calls abuse and Ringling Bros. calls responsible training methodology.

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