Bull elephant found gored to death in Loei

By The Nation

 

 

A wild bull elephant was found gored to death near a plantation of villagers in the Wang Saprung district Loei province on Friday morning, officials said.

 

Sub-Lieutenant Surapol Prasomsup, chief of the Phu Luang Wildlife Sanctuary, led officials to check a creek near a plantation in Ban Na Luang village in Wang Saprung at 9 am on Friday after villagers informed his office they had heard sounds of male elephant fighting on Thursday night.

 

The officials found the body of an elephant, which appeared to be around 21 to 22 years old, lying near the creek. It had suffered 12 wounds inflicted by elephant tusks. Each wound was about 39-cm deep.

 

A veterinarian on the team, Kanayos Kri-una, said the elephant died about six hours ago.

 

The officials took sample from its trunk, tongue and tail hair for DNA checking and buried the carcass.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30334562

 

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Is this a true story or a cover story? I have become incredulous when it comes to Thai Govt. officials.

28 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

Is this a true story or a cover story? I have become incredulous when it comes to Thai Govt. officials.

They have no need to stage fake news.

 

It's the real stuff they spew out that is hard to believe.

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

villagers informed his office they had heard sounds of male elephant fighting

Do male elephants make different sounds to female elephants when fighting??

1 hour ago, wirat69 said:

Do male elephants make different sounds to female elephants when fighting??

There is more hair pulling and higher pitched screaming by females

Edited December 23, 20178 yr by Juan B Tong

There is more hair pulling and higher pitched screaming by females

Funny!

and where are the tusks ?

Did he pull the killer elephants tail?

57 minutes ago, KKr said:

and where are the tusks ?

The tusks may have been taken by the tusk fairy.................

On 12/22/2017 at 8:03 PM, Briggsy said:

Is this a true story or a cover story? I have become incredulous when it comes to Thai Govt. officials.

Looks pretty dead to me. Unless they trained him to sleep on rocks?

On 12/23/2017 at 2:26 PM, InMyShadow said:

Did he pull the killer elephants tail?

this one surely did,
actually this was an elder elephant punishing a naughty child

Edited December 25, 20178 yr by KKr