![]() Enraged and disoriented, she storms out of the arena and tears through the city streets as people flee in terror. When her trainer attempts to intervene she crushes him, killing him instantly. This harrowing footage shows Tyke wearing a silly pink hat, kicking a young groom like a rag doll. The attacks on her trainers and her death on the streets of Honolulu were all captured on video and were shown around the world. She then ran from the arena and through the city streets for more than thirty minutes until police officers eventually opened fire and she collapsed and died. On that fateful day, during a performance at the Neal Blaisdell Center, she killed her trainer, Allen Campbell, and seriously injured her groomer, Dallas Beckwith. Her journey from a baby in the African bush to her death in amongst the hustle and bustle of a busy city, epitomises the suffering that we inflict upon individual animals due to our own greed and selfishness. ![]() On Augshe was shot 87 times whilst on the streets of Honolulu, Hawaii and she died of her injuries. Tyke was a female African bush elephant captured as a baby in Mozambique in 1973 and shipped to the United States, where she became the property of the Hawthorn Corporation, a company specialising in supplying wild animals to circuses. ![]() Animal Welfare Director Dave Neale looks back on the tragedy that was the life and death of an elephant named Tyke, on the 26th anniversary of her death.
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