Steve and I have been to the circus again.
I'm not really sure why.
There were some great acrobatic acts and the clowns were very funny.
This time there were a lot more animal acts than last time (I put photos here a few months ago). They had the same lion and tiger act as before, so I haven't put any pictures of that again.This time there were lots of monkey acts, leopards riding horses, the biggest sea lions I have ever seen and bears with muzzles and shackles jumping over dogs.
It's crazy, there are species in circuses that we are trying to conserve and save through zoo work, yet there they are in the circus riding motorbikes and swinging on the trapeze! Unbelievable.
People love it here, they laugh and applaud the whole way through. Having read the UK newspapers online recently, to see an animal circus in the UK (and there are only one or two) you have to fight your way through an army of anti-circus protesters. Here there are none, just people ready to pay to see the spectacle.
People bouncing on rubber tubes
Skipping on rubber tubes
Monkey on a pony
Monkey doing a handstand
Monkey riding a bike
Monkey on a trapeze
A good circus act
A bear jumping over dogs
Skipping bear
A bear far too close to the audience
A bear rolling a tube on his feet, just before taking a swipe at the trainer
Handstand bear
Flying bear
Bear driving motorbike
Bear driving motorbike
Young leopard
Leopard on a horse
Two leopards on horses
Leopards on horses
Massive sealion on ball
Climbing sealion
Sealions too close to audience
Sealion on a stick
Sealion on left is the one from the show and is pretty big, the enormous one on the right was not in the show and is bigger than a cow
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