{"id":19215,"date":"2013-06-25T09:10:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T05:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=19215"},"modified":"2013-06-25T09:10:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T05:10:14","slug":"horrifying-moment-a-circus-worker-dances-on-the-body-of-a-dying-elephant-after-it-collapsed-while-bathing-in-a-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=19215","title":{"rendered":"Horrifying moment a circus worker dances on the body of a dying elephant after it collapsed while bathing in a river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/circus-worker-dancing-on-the-body-of-a-dying-elephant1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19207\" alt=\"circus worker dancing on the body of a dying elephant1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/circus-worker-dancing-on-the-body-of-a-dying-elephant1.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/circus-worker-dancing-on-the-body-of-a-dying-elephant1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/circus-worker-dancing-on-the-body-of-a-dying-elephant1-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/circus-worker-dancing-on-the-body-of-a-dying-elephant1-406x300.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>A shocking video has emerged of a circus worker dancing on the back of a dying elephant while it bathes in a river.<\/p>\n<p>The film shows Madi &#8211; a 48-year-old Indian elephant &#8211; slowly drowning as the circus owner&#8217;s brother jumps around on her in a pair of swimming shorts as she sinks under the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Horrified witnesses made the 40 minute video when Madi &#8211; from Germany&#8217;s Universal Circus Renz &#8211; was taken to a river to bath during a tour of Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>As Madi &#8211; clearly frail and in distressed &#8211; stumbles onto her side into the water, the zoo owner&#8217;s brother Rene Renz leaps onto her back and begins clowning around for spectators.<br \/>\nEven when the stricken animal sinks dying under the surface of the water in Narva, Renz leaps from its back in a comic dive for more laughs.<\/p>\n<p>Now the circus owner Daniel Renz and brother Rene are under investigation for alleged animal cruelty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shocking video has emerged of a circus worker dancing on the back of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[1508],"class_list":["post-19215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-estonia","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}