A German circus has stopped using real-life animals in its performances and changed to holograms instead.
Circus Roncalli, which was founded in 1976, uses 3D holographic images to fill the whole arena which is 32 meters (105ft) wide and 5 meters (16ft) deep.
Clever special effects produced by 11 different projectors mean the whole audience can see elephants, horses and even a goldfish.
The circus started out using real animals but gradually phased them out, replacing them with the futuristic technology instead. Founder Bernhard Paul, invested more than £400,000 to perfect the light show.
The decision to do so has been widely praised on social media.
The circus features other acts, like clowns and trapeze artists but has used the holograms to take a stand against the mistreatment of animals in the industry.
Regulators are slowly catching up with this and last month a bill was passed in the UK which will ban circuses using wild animals in their performances.
Speaking of the technology advance, the president of Animal Defenders International, Jan Creamer, told The Dodo: ‘This is the future of circus — a performance everyone can enjoy and for which intelligent, sentient beings are not used and depicted as objects of entertainment.’
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