Ab Fab actress Joanna Lumley spearheads new animation
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00:00 (birds chirping)
00:02 Our true story starts with a little elephant
00:06 called Puli Puli.
00:08 (dramatic music)
00:11 - I don't understand.
00:19 I'm frightened.
00:20 I see thick bars everywhere, as thick as trees.
00:29 I pace up and down, the same paces,
00:34 feet in the same places.
00:36 A prisoner with no hope of release, ever.
00:42 Kept in a yard, locked in a concrete cell.
00:47 No hope, no purpose.
00:51 I want to be free.
00:53 I'm a prisoner like those before me,
00:55 whose footsteps I follow.
00:57 But what else is there?
00:59 Except to rock and pace and sway and search for dreams.
01:04 (dramatic music)
01:07 Everything is provided, except purpose and hope.
01:17 And the visitors watching, they don't understand.
01:25 They think we're playing.
01:27 (dramatic music)
01:29 Time has no meaning.
01:32 There is no escape.
01:33 The only real way out is death.
01:37 Ah, I understand.
01:52 I am going home.
01:57 (elephant trumpets)
02:00 - Enough is enough.
02:02 Dozens of elephants, intelligent and sentient,
02:07 still languish in UK zoos.
02:09 Whether taken from the wild or bred in captivity,
02:14 they die young and suffer mental anguish,
02:17 denied their life of freedom in the sun.
02:20 Join us by signing the petition for an elephant-free UK.
02:25 (dramatic music)
02:28 (gentle music)
02:30 (gentle music)
02:33 (gentle music)
02:35 (gentle music)
02:38 [BLANK_AUDIO]