00:00Jumbo was born 30 years ago and has been living in a circus for 30 years.
00:12So he lives on the streets, without access to water.
00:16A hippopotamus is an animal that needs water.
00:19Hippos in nature spend their lives in the river during the day,
00:23and they are also very social animals, so they need to be in a group.
00:27Jumbo is all alone, without water.
00:41He has an outdoor pool, but at night he has an indoor pool in the truck,
00:45furnished with 10,000 liters of water.
00:47So at night he has his big bathtub.
00:57For the past three years, our investigators have been following him constantly,
01:05and we have timed that he only leaves the truck 30 minutes a day.
01:10That is to say that the rest of the time he is locked in the darkness in the truck.
01:15Jumbo does not participate in the show at all,
01:18but on the posters it is marked the biggest hippopotamus in Europe.
01:21So it is used to attract people who are not informed.
01:24Who are not informed that a hippopotamus, his life is in the water.
01:27His life is with his family, all the time.
01:30And who do not know what the suffering of his animals in his is.
01:54Jumbo the hippopotamus
02:19Jumbo the hippopotamus
02:24Jumbo the hippopotamus
02:27We have organized everything to transfer Jumbo to Africa,
02:30so we just have to organize it.
02:34There is no reason for a circus that is in disrepair to continue to be so.
02:38We know that the authorities are absolutely in agreement on this.
02:40Now we need a lot of resources,
02:42and we hope that they will be deployed very soon,
02:45because Jumbo cannot stay there. It is not possible.
02:47Save Jumbo! Save Jumbo!
02:53We want what? Circuses without animals!
03:08The traditional circus is with wild animals.
03:10It has existed for 250 years.
03:12We are resistance of the trade.
03:14I may not be there to see it,
03:16but I think the circus is not stopped.
03:24Jumbo the hippopotamus
03:27In this circus, there is Jumbo,
03:29who lives locked up 23h30 on 24h,
03:32but there are also five tigers,
03:34who do not participate in the show,
03:36which is a violation of the law.
03:38They should no longer be kept captive.
03:40They live in a truck, in a very small space.
03:43There are also monkeys in absolutely terrible conditions,
03:46of which a monkey is forced to ride a pony in the evening during the show.
03:51These are really, really difficult conditions.
03:54They literally live confined in trucks.
03:57So on the roads, all the time,
04:00and then there is this violence of dressing,
04:02which is permanent.
04:04They participate in a noisy show.
04:06We must not forget that they are wild animals.
04:09They are afraid of humans,
04:11and therefore being exposed to music,
04:13to humans on the track,
04:15is also a great stress for them.
04:17So in fact, there is no moment in the day,
04:20not a second, where they have a little peace, these animals.
04:23We want to transfer them to sanctuaries.
04:25We have already transferred them to sanctuaries,
04:28and they adapt very quickly and very well,
04:30and it's absolutely wonderful.
04:32And what children and young generations want to see today,
04:35are protected animals in nature,
04:37and these are animals that relive in sanctuaries.
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