Staff Writer

10:17 p.m. MST, December 30, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY—
Animal Rights activists from Utah are in India helping to collect the last of the "Dancing Bears" and put them in sanctuaries. In exchange, their owners are getting a new life. The group, Wildlife SOS says that the endangered Sloth bears are captured as cubs by poachers, who often kill their mothers. Their claws and teeth are sometimes ripped out to make them tamer. A rope is laced through their noses. To teach them how to dance, they're forced to walk on hot coals. It's a practice that activists say they are trying to end.

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