VIDEO: Crowd Watches Circus Tiger Get Whipped After Turning on Trainer

When will we understand that animals are not our toys, not ours to abandon and not ours to torture?!

They are not here for our entertainment or for our fancy shoes, bags and coats!

And, most importantly, when will we understand that wild animals should not be kept in cages?!

This video shows a circus tiger getting whipped after turning on his trainer.

According to heroviral.com, a trainer working with a tiger at Florida’s Pensacola Interstate Fair found herself in a bit of trouble. The 2-year-old tiger nudged her leg, and she lost her balance and then the animal was on top of her. A member of the audience captured the incident on video. The tiger can be seen trying to mouth at her legs as she hits him in the face.

A male trainer enters the ring and whips the tiger. The tiger named Gandhi grabs the female trainers leg and drags her across the enclosure. Children in the audience stare in horror. The trainer, Vicenta Pages, did not sustain any serious injuries, which is lucky because most tiger attacks are fatal.

According to Live Science, tigers are the largest felines in the world. Many cultures consider the tiger to be a symbol of strength and courage. However, because hunting them is also a sign of bravery in some cultures, tigers are endangered; no more than 3,200 tigers are left in the wild.

Tigers live in Asia. Larger subspecies, such as the Siberian tiger, tend to live in northern, colder areas, such as eastern Russia and northeastern China. Smaller subspecies live in southern, warmer countries, such as India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia.

They live in arid forests, flooded mangrove forests, tropical forests and taiga, depending on the subspecies.

All tigers are carnivores. Most of a tiger’s diet consists of large prey, such as pigs, deer, rhinos or elephant calves. To kill their prey, tigers will clamp down on the animal’s neck with their jaws and suffocate the animal. Though tigers are fierce hunters, they are no strangers to failure. Ninety percent of the time they don’t catch their prey.

Tigers are solitary creatures; they like to spend most of their time alone, roaming their massive territories looking for food. According to the San Diego Zoo, the Siberian tiger has the largest range. Its territory can be more than 4,000 square miles (10,000 square kilometers). Tigers mark their territory by scratching marks into trees with their claws.

Tiger babies, or cubs, are born helpless. At birth, a cub weighs 2.2 pounds (1 kg), and a female may have as many as seven cubs at a time, according to the San Diego Zoo. Usually, only two survive, though, because the mother must leave the cubs while she hunts, and she cannot kill enough prey to feed so many cubs.

Tiger cubs mature quickly. At 8 weeks old, they are ready to learn how to hunt and go out on hunting expeditions with their mother. At 2 years old, the cubs will set out on their own, and their mother will have another set of cubs.