Do elephants do handstands in the wild?

Question

i was on the ringling bros website, and in their animal care page they said :

• The same behaviors you see the elephants exhibit in the arena you can see among young calves naturally exploring their environment at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation® such as climbing on their mothers and on each other, doing head stands for fun or manipulating things in their environment like logs and branches.

that seems weird. are they lying about the hand stands?

Answer 1

They do it when nobody is lookin.

Answer 2

Here is everything you need to know.

http://www.circuses.com/

Answer 3

YES THEY ARE!! Circuses lie about things like this to try to disuede animal activist groups and get more customers. They are most definatly lying. Circuses whip their animals and some even starve them. I have heard rumors of circuses that use fire to punish and "train/break" their animals, but as of now I have no evidence to back this up. Wild animals do not exhibit behavior like this in the wild (where they SHOULD be) they are trained to do this. Elephants play with logs and branches in wild but that is as accurate as that disclaimer gets.

BOYCOTT CIRCUSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                                                  -Jhykyy