A celebrity crusade

The actress Kim Basinger has launched a crusade to help American’s circus animals.

She complains that they are often badly treated and poorly looked after. “These animals are kept in horrific conditions. They’re dragged around cities suffering in the name of entertainment.” Basinger was mobilised into action following a circus tragedy in Albuquerque. An African elephant named Heather was found dead inside a steamy, poorly ventilated trailer. She belonged to the King World Circus. As a consequence, two circus handlers were charged with cruelty to animals and the travelling circus was forced to hand over its two surviving elephants to a local zoo park.

(Taken from Speak Up # 131)

GLOSSARY
dragged around – arrastados.

In “... its two surviving elephants...”, the underlined word expresses the idea of possession related to