Star elephant beats mahout to death at Chiang Mai Zoo

By Thai PBS

 

 

A well-known male elephant at Chiang Mai Zoo, Phlai Ekasit,  that appeared in action movie “Ong Bak” starring Panom “Tony Jaa” Yeeram and other Thai and international films, hit a mahout with its trunk, killing him instantly, on Monday morning (Nov 27), police said.

Eyewitnesses told police that the incident occurred while Somsak Riangngern, 55, the elephant’s handler for over 10 years, was giving him a banana tree in a kraal inside the zoo and trying to walk him to take a bath. The elephant suddenly turned to the mahout and hit him many times with his trunk, killing him in front of his wife, Mrs Jampa.

 

Zoo officials were later able to keep the elephant under control. It was initially believed the 32-year-old pachyderm went wild because he was is in rut.  However, the actual cause of the incident has yet to be determined by veterinarians.

 

Full story:  http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/star-elephant-beats-mahout-death-chiang-mai-zoo/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-11-27

 

 

 

Maybe it's time to rethink how the elephants are treated?

Elephants don't forget. 

No Parking Zone.

 

30 minutes ago, watcharacters said:

 

 

 

Maybe it's time to rethink how the elephants are treated?

 

Musth - Wikipedia

 

"Scientific investigation of musth is problematic because even the most placid elephants become highly violent toward humans and other elephants during musth."

 

"In zoos, bull elephants in musth have killed numerous keepers when a normally friendly animal became uncontrollably enraged; in contrast to normal dominance behavior, bulls in musth will even attack and kill members of their own family, including their own calves."

 

 

After 10 years there was obviously no bond. On many occasions I have seen the way the (uneducated) idiot - mahout - treat these animals (in fact who is the animal).

 

= Kama and no sympathy. I only hope they do not punish the elephant!

It is only the Mahout that says the " bullhook " they use on the elephant does not hurt them, but if an elephant could talk I am sure it would say otherwise 

1 hour ago, Enoon said:

 

Musth - Wikipedia

 

"Scientific investigation of musth is problematic because even the most placid elephants become highly violent toward humans and other elephants during musth."

 

"In zoos, bull elephants in musth have killed numerous keepers when a normally friendly animal became uncontrollably enraged; in contrast to normal dominance behavior, bulls in musth will even attack and kill members of their own family, including their own calves."

 

 

Elephant crushing - Wikipedia

 

"Elephant crushing, or a training crush is a method by which wild elephants can be tamed for domestication, using restriction in a cage, sometimes with the use of corporal punishment or negative reinforcement."

 

"Baby elephants are taken from the wild, with the adult elephants around the baby killed.^[1] The elephants are then often put through a process of beatings to "mentally break" them (the so-called "phajaan"), to make them submissive for the lucrative entertainment of tourists in tourist parks"

thai elephants must have the same mindset as thai men

Here's a photo of the elephant, Phlai Ekasit

 

 

Beautiful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma

Smart elephants hide the body:

https://news.lovepattayathailand.com/national/elephant-kills-owner-tried-hide-body/

At least try to make it look like an accident, stupid beast.

Hard to believe that one swipe of the trunk can kill instantly. That's 40,000+ muscles at work being swung by something like a 5,000 kg (looking at the above pic) beast.

He's just got tired of being poked and prodded all day .....

Elephants don't belong in zoos.

13 hours ago, Topdoc said:

Here's a photo of the elephant, Phlai Ekasit

 

 

Magnificent animal!

14 hours ago, Topdoc said:

Here's a photo of the elephant, Phlai Ekasit

 

 

Is this a genuine photo of the bull elephant?  It's certainly not at the Chiang Mai zoo.

19 hours ago, webfact said:

The elephant suddenly turned to the mahout and hit him many times with his trunk, killing him in front of his wife, Mrs Jampa.

 

 

3 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Hard to believe that one swipe of the trunk can kill instantly. That's 40,000+ muscles at work being swung by something like a 5,000 kg (looking at the above pic) beast.

 

Zoo Sorry For ‘Unpreventable’ Death Of Mahout By ‘Ong Bak’ Elephant

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

  

Tony Jaa in Ong Bak 2.

 

CHIANG MAI — Chiang Mai Zoo officials apologized to the family of an experienced mahout trampled/gored to death by an elephant that appeared in a martial arts blockbuster film, describing the incident as “unpreventable.”

 

Phlai Ekasit, 32, a male elephant at the Chiang Mai Zoo, killed Somsak Riangngern, 54 of Surin, in front of his wife and fellow mahouts on Monday morning.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/calamity/2017/11/28/zoo-sorry-unpreventable-death-mahout-ong-bak-elephant/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2017-11-28

 

Good job". The way they treat the Elephants is in humane.  Good to see Elephant getting even for bad treatment. 

No such thing as Unpreventable, rubbish, always preventable, somewhere someone messed up. You are dealing with the largest wild animal in the world not your domestic cat. Elephants do not belong in shows of zoos.

Everybody needs a job...Sure, in the perfect world,  they would be roaming free but in the 'real' world they often get killed for many reasons.

2 things quickly grab the attention here....1. Apologized to the family ... (fate?) End of story, no compensation, no explanation, done deal.  And,   2. Unpreventable.    Yeah right!

Ever see how those mahouts poke that sharp metal at the elephants eyes?  

Good. The treatment of elephants in Thailand is disgusting.

Sad but treat an animal like a fool and he will treat you like the idiot you are.

I guess unpreventable translates to uncompensatable. 

 

On ‎11‎/‎27‎/‎2017 at 8:27 PM, Jools said:

Beautiful.

Hardly.

On ‎11‎/‎28‎/‎2017 at 3:23 PM, pattayadon said:

2 things quickly grab the attention here....1. Apologized to the family ... (fate?) End of story, no compensation, no explanation, done deal.  And,   2. Unpreventable.    Yeah right!

"End of story, no compensation, no explanation, done deal".

How was something that was not stated able to grab your attention?