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Come to the circus - you’ll have a really wild time

 

Circus ringmistress Petra Jackson and Cinzia Timmis
From:  blackpoolgazette.co.uk
August 16, 2013
Now here’s something you don’t see every day. Zebra - rather like civil servants - tend to be thin on the ground at Norcross.

Here it’s a customary sight at least once a year. That’s the zebra. Arguably cutbacks have made civil servants a more endangered species locally.
But time could be running out for traditional travelling circuses such as this.
Circus Mondao is one of the few touring circuses to still feature wild animals.
Zebra, camels, reindeer. In twos, like Noah’s Ark. “Not wild animals,” stresses ringmaster Petra Jackson, “not as most would consider them – lions, tigers.”
It’s an argument which doesn’t wash with animal rights campaigners, such as the Captive Animal Society and Animal Defenders International.
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