![]() He claimed Tyke just didn’t have a good attitude. McMillan said Tyke resisted training and would run away whenever the trainers tried to do anything with her. The trainer, Brian McMillan, said he spent about three months trying to get Tyke to perform tricks for a nightclub act, before realizing she wasn’t suitable for training. The young elephant was just over five feet tall at that time. News of Tyke’s Honolulu rampage came as little surprise to a Santa Clarita animal trainer who worked with Tyke about 15 years before the incident. Later, the incident was turned into a documentary Tyke: Elephant Outlaw, which shook the world. This poor elephant had only experienced 30 minutes of freedom in her entire life. Tyke was captured in 1973 when she was just a baby elephant and then sold to the circus in Hawaii, where she was abused day and night and chained for up to 22 hours a day. ![]() No circus elephants have performed in the town since Tyke, even though there is no ban against it. Twenty years later, witnesses still remember the graphic scene, and the attitude in Honolulu toward animal-driven circuses is distrusting. People watched horrified from their cars, apartments, and the sidewalk. She raised her right foot to ask for help at one point before she succumbed to nerve damage and brain hemorrhages. Tyke lay on the side of a car with blood all over her body. Tyke’s rampage caused one death and 10 other serious injuries to onlookers. It was a foot chase between her and the Honolulu police. Tyke then broke through an iron gate and for 30 minutes she ran through the streets of the neighborhood’s business district at rush hour, nearly trampling the circus promoter when he tried to fence her in. Tyke went on to fatally crush her trainer, who was trying to intervene, before fleeing the arena herself. Terrified, the audience members bolted for the exits. The audience soon realized it wasn’t a dummy, but a severely injured animal groomer. On August 20, 1994, during the show in Honolulu, Hawaii with Circus International, Tyke entered the ring, kicking around what looked like a dummy. Should an Elephant's behavior be a hint to future danger?Ī year had passed and another circus elephant had gone on a rampage in Hawaii and had been shot to death. They ended up using another elephant to lure her back into the mosque with only $15,000 in damages. Taylor made her lie down a few times to remind her and the crowd that he could control her. ![]() Taylor tried to lead the elephant off the balcony, littered in elephant droppings and debris of apples and carrots, she would start to comply, then she would back up again. ![]() Taylor seemed to be using this device only for guidance.Įach time Mr. ![]() When the elephant reached the end of the balcony, he planned on using a bull-hook to turn her around. As the trainer fed the elephant carrots and apples from a bucket, he tried to guide her to the Jaffa Mosque’s doorway to get her inside with the rest of the animals. His demeanor and seemed unworried and relaxed. Her trainer, Tyrone Taylor, wearing a bright red and gold Arabian-looking jacket, walked patiently with her. The elephant walked back and forth she didn’t seem particularly upset. ![]()
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