Bull elephant kills mahout at camp north of Phuket

Rorii | 28 August 2016 - 15:21:58

nemrut, farang refers to white tourists, as we all know, or should know, many tourists are not white, you should also understand, not all countries/people have the same animal welfare understanding/laws as other countries do. What allows these places to operate, it's simple, the authorities and the laws of Thailand, perhaps you should "picket" these places, it would be interesting to...

nemrut | 28 August 2016 - 13:48:18

Farang tourists should know better.  Theyre the ones enabling these places to operate and the captivity of such intelligent creatures.

Ed Sanders | 27 August 2016 - 17:05:35

I like to hear stories like this.  These mahouts are heartless punks that have never had any problems beating and abusing these beautiful animals.  When I see these punks and their metal pick-axes, I can only wish them the worst.

Kurt | 27 August 2016 - 10:48:36

Obviously this bull elephant was angry.
All the time we are told that elephants are very intelligent, we also know that the 'family setting' among elephants is very strong. 
Elephants like to be close to each other, socialize, touch each other.
Standing long nights 'in chains', isolated from each other, can build up anger in a elephant, specially a bull ( he even not need to be ...