Bear caged and beaten She was a sweet little innocent brown bear who never hurt anyone...but sometimes she had trouble balancing on the high wire. She was then beaten with long metal rods until she was screaming and bloody. She became so neurotic that she would beat her head against her small cage. She finally died. (Excerpts from an interview with Gene, a former Ringling Bros. Circus employee, as interviewed by The Elephant Alliance) Back to Photo Gallery