Soon enough Tyke came running and attacked the man and wouldn’t stop. Tyrone kept telling him to stop because he knew that Tyke didn’t like it. On April 21, 1993, a trainer who thought he could control Tyke started shouting her name to get her to come over. Tyrone explained to us in the documentary a horrific event that happened that made him stop using Tyke in performances. Holding these large animal’s captive for such a long period of time each day is very unhealthy for these creatures because they do have to get an excessive amount of exercise each day. All of the elephants that were in the circus, they would train two hours a day and for the rest of the 22 hours out of the day they would be chained up in a barn not able to move. The trainer Tyrone explains to us in the video that Tyke was always the slowest on purpose and she wouldn’t be in sync with the other elephants and she knew that she was going to be hit with the bull hook so she would always flinch. Tyke has been in the circus her whole life, she went through various amounts of training, which contained physical abuse with a bull hook and verbal abuse from the trainers. You can only take something for so long before you get fed up. Elephant are wild creatures and just like humans, we all have a limit.
Elephants need to be able to roam around a big area doing what elephants do. Tykes story is a perfect example of why elephant should not be held captive. He always knew that she had a rebellious side. Tyrone, her trainer for many years felt a special bond between him and the elephant and he knew what she could and couldn’t take. In the documentary “Tyke Elephant Outlaw”, Tyke was one of many elephants who have been forced to train for the circus her whole life. This tragedy has caused an uproar amongst animal activist and soon the world knew the story of Tyke. The community of Honolulu tried to get a law passed to prohibit the use of exotic animals in the circus because they are abused constantly, but it didn’t pass.
A man who was sent to pick up the body of the elephant said she had tear stains on her eyes as if she was sad that people were going to the point of killing her. Once police cornered Tyke, she was shot 86 times before she was killed. She crushed two people, her Mahout and her trainer, and she injured many others when exiting the circus building and entering the streets of Honolulu. She was beaten when training and chained up for 22 hours a day, and one day she just had enough and went on a rampage. Her whole life she was trained to be in the circus. Through her former trainers and handlers, circus industry insiders, witnesses to her rampage, and animal rights activists for whom Tyke became a global rallying cry, the film raises fundamental questions about our connection to other species.Tyke was an African elephant that was born in 1974, and was killed Augin Honolulu, Hawaii at a circus event. Tyke’s break for freedom – filmed from start to tragic finish – traumatised a city and ignited a global battle over the use of animals in the entertainment industry. This is the gripping and emotionally charged story of Tyke, a circus elephant who went on a rampage in Honolulu in 1994, killed her trainer in front of thousands of spectators and died in a hail of gunfire.
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