“As eyewitness investigations have repeatedly shown, elephants used for human entertainment are commonly stolen from their mothers and herds as babies and beaten mercilessly to break their spirits and make them fearful and submissive,” according to the website of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. “True [elephant] sanctuaries never buy, sell, trade, breed, exploit, or profit from elephants. They never use bullhooks or punish elephants in other ways even out of tourists’ sight, and they don’t force animals who naturally avoid humans into close contact with them.”