A circus spokesman recently told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that animals would be excluded from the shows, and PETA applauded the decision in a press release: In 2014, when the Moscow International Circus announced that it would perform in Honolulu with “wild animals”, activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals circulated a petition against it. No circus elephants have performed since Tyke, even though there is no prohibition against it. Twenty seven years later, witnesses still remember it vividly, and the attitude in Honolulu toward animal-driven circuses is distrusting. People watched aghast from their cars, apartments and the sidewalk. It was a foot chase between her and the Honolulu police, who eventually shot her 86 times before she succumbed to nerve damage and brain haemorrhages. Tyke went on to fatally crush her trainer, who was trying to intervene, before fleeing the arena herself.įor nearly 30 minutes, Tyke ran through the streets of the Kakaako neighborhood’s business district at rush hour, nearly trampling circus promoter Steve Hirano when he tried to fence her in. Panicked, audience members fled for the exits. They soon realized the supposed dummy was a severely injured groomer. “We thought it was part of the show,” one witness told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Tyke entered the ring at the Blaisdell Arena, kicking around what looked to audience members like a dummy. Unable to take the abuse any longer, she finally snapped. When they finally let her out she was immediately forced into performing in from of an audience. In August 1994, Tyke spent several days locked in the hull of a tanker ship on a long ocean journey from California to Hawaii. Tyke was tortured during this time, forced to wear a degrading clown costume and dance for the audience, and even forced to ride a giant tricycle. and for twenty years abused and exploited. She was sold into the circus industry in the U.S. Tyke was a wild-born African Elephant captured from the wild in Mozambique when just a baby. Mention “Tyke the Elephant” to anyone who lived in Honolulu 27 years ago and chances are they’ll shake their head and talk about what a dark moment it was in their city’s history. 20TH AUGUST 1994: THE DAY THAT TYKE THE ELEPHANT WAS SHOT 86 TIMES!
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