Wild and wacky entrance to the circus, designed to attract an audience which has been waning over the last years.

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A tiger and lioness lay in a cage no larger than a meter and a half long, and a meter wide. Often there would be two wild cats in the same cage.

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Young girl comes face to face with a lioness at the foreigner street circus in Chongqing.

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Indochinese tiger is driven around foreigner street theme park to attract audiences to the circus.

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Around foreigner street there are Rhesus macaques putting on shows for passers by trying to draw audiences to the circus.

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Small cages and a variety of animals are kept around the circus in Foreigner Street circus. Cleaning the cages is a hose down each morning.

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A sloth bear is trained to do headstands, jumps and ride bicycles by the ringmaster. He uses a stick to train and hit it if the bear doesn't follow his commands.

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One of the many sloth bears live in a cage that is not large enough for it to stand on its hind legs. The bear paces backwards and forwards in its cage until training or a show.

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Chained to the wall a sloth bear is trained to stand on its hind legs. The bear will be left like this while the ring master goes for lunch. An hour later it'll be put back in its cage. He uses a stick to train and hit it if the bear doesn't follow his commands.

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Often the wild cats are beaten during training to emasculate and indoctrinate them to training for an audience.

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Often the wild cats are beaten during training to emasculate and indoctrinate them to training for an audience.

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Living in cages damages their paws. A lioness roles over to rest her wounds.

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Around foreigner street there are Rhesus macaques putting on shows for passers by trying to draw audiences to the circus.

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A small Rhesus macaque is kept in a cage for the majority of its life. They are taken around the theme park for photos with crowds and to attract audiences to the circus or perform in the ring.

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Attendants chain an indochinese tiger to a table and invite the small audience to come into the ring. They provide a photographer to capture a moment with the big cat.

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A sloth bear is trained to do headstands, jumps and ride bicycles by the ringmaster. He uses a stick to train and hit it if the bear doesn't follow his commands.

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Ring master plays on his phone after a performance at the foreigner street circus in Chongqing.

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Clerk sits in his booth waiting for customers to buy tickets to the foreigner street circus.

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Sloth bears perform in front of a small audience at the foreigner street circus in Chongqing.

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Sloth bears perform in front of a small audience at the foreigner street circus in Chongqing.

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Performing indochinese tigers and a lioness show their training in front of a small crowd at the foreigner street circus, Chongqinq.

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The indochinese tiger lets out a roar entering the ring at the foreigner street circus. The ring master often hits the tiger with a pole during the performance.

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Under Chongqing's main airport the circus has the constant hum of low flying aircraft.

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Audiences are shrinking at the circus in foreigner street.

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Attendants chain an indochinese tiger to a table and invite the small audience to come into the ring. They provide a photographer to capture a moment with the big cat.

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Attendants chain an indochinese tiger to a table and invite the small audience to come into the ring. They provide a photographer to capture a moment with the big cat.

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Attendants chain an indochinese tiger to a table and invite the small audience to come into the ring. They provide a photographer to capture a moment with the big cat.

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Attendants chain an indochinese tiger to a table and invite the small audience to come into the ring. They provide a photographer to capture a moment with the big cat.

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Attendants chain an indochinese tiger to a table and invite the small audience to come into the ring. They provide a photographer to capture a moment with the big cat.

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Attendants chain an indochinese tiger to a table and invite the small audience to come into the ring. They provide a photographer to capture a moment with the big cat.

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Attendants chain an indochinese tiger to a table and invite the small audience to come into the ring. They provide a photographer to capture a moment with the big cat.

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Indochinese tigers, lioness, sloth bears, Rhesus macaque and poodles are loaded onto a packed truck to be taken to a new location in China.

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