In Asia elephants are widely used as tourists' attraction.
Surin, a northeastern province in Thailand, is famous for its greatest elephant round-up. The festival features elephant football, elephant swimming, elephant race and elephant dance.
Elephants are trained to perform dance routines to various tunes. Trainers line them up and the elephants sway and prance to the rhythm, trunks swinging, feet keeping time with the beat, and heads swaying to and fro, all for humans’ amusement.
In a different kind of dance the elephants respond to more than 60 separate commands as an attempt to recreate the battle scenes from old Siam's battles.
Even more popular event is elephant football. The elephants toss around a rather large ball, using their trunks.

Donkey basketball is a violent variation of basketball, played on a standard basketball court, by players on donkeys. Besides carrying full-grown adults, the donkeys are punched, kicked, screamed at, or whipped when found to be "uncooperative" by their riders. Food and water are sometimes withheld from them before games to prevent "accidents".
The deprivation, constant travel, unfamiliar surroundings, slippery ground, loud noise, and rough handling are extremely stressful for the donkeys.
These games usually played for their hilarity as a fundraiser event, desensitize young people to animal suffering and teach them that humans have the right to abuse animals for their own entertainment.
For nearly 74 years in California, USA, at the Calaveras County Fair the Jumping Frog competition occurs intermittently throughout this 3-day event.
The rules of this archaic, cruel competition require that each frog is dropped onto a round, 8-inch start pad, from where the frogs are expected to produce their best three jumps in the hope of winning the $5,000 prize for the human 'jockey'. Once on the start pad, the 'jockeys' are allowed to poke and prod the frog until they make their initial jump. After the frog leaves the start pad, the jockeys start to scream at them from extremely close range, slam hands or stomp feet on the ground on either side of the frog in order to scare them into making the remaining two jumps as long and as far as possible.
Often, the frogs will jump well beyond the boundaries of the stage in a panicked effort to escape. If not scooped up by human 'frog catchers' standing by with large fishing nets, the disoriented frogs will often jump into the large crowd of spectators, into nearby equipment, or turn and jump the 'wrong' direction to the jockeys or other onlookers who may inadvertently step on them.
The competition takes place on a large, outdoor, unshaded, concrete slab stage during the heat of late spring. The drying heat combined with constant handling by humans is extremely damaging and stressing for the frogs, as their permeable skin makes them highly susceptible to diseases and infections.
Each year prior to the Calaveras County fair, groups of avid competitors who dub themselves 'frog tamers', remove more than 300 frogs from swamps and bogs in several surrounding counties. Many of these frogs are then confined in boxes when not being forced to 'train' for the competition. Similar to greyhound racing, it has been documented that, in the past, some frogs have even tested positively for performance-enhancing chemicals.
Humans’ ingenuity is limitless when it comes to torturing animals.
If you keep letting humans decide whether or not to keep hurting animals, new forms of exploitation and new practices in old exploitation forms will be invented
all the time.
When you ask them to consider changing their abusing life style, you give them the choice.
But it shouldn’t be the exploiters’ choice.
So stop asking them!