VIDEO: Elephants brutally beaten at prestigious polo event in Bangkok

[tukkytuktuk]

Just one more video. There is hope.

 

 

[William T]

That is nothing compared with what elephants are subjected in  America (and probably elsewhere) to  'break them in" before they are taught their circus tricks.

 

I saw a video of about a dozen men viciously beating the legs of a tied elephant over and over again.

[Just Weird]

21 hours ago, johng said:

Thailand ?

 

You're asking a question?  Yes, where in Thailand has a mall been built in a jungle?

[Just Weird]

21 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

Would you settle for magnificent or perhaps majestic in some ways?

Not really, I'd settle for something objective such as "big".  You might think that they are "magnificent" but that's purely subjective, and they definitely are not "majestic".

[Odysseus123]

8 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

You're asking a question?  Yes, where in Thailand has a mall been built in a jungle?

 

[Just Weird]

4 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

 

Can't argue with that comment.

[johng]

You're asking a question?  Yes, where in Thailand has a mall been built in a jungle?

Im sorry you dont get it.
They cut the jungle down then build the mall,hotel,resort,roads etc.[emoji32]

[Just Weird]

22 minutes ago, johng said:

Im sorry you dont get it.
They cut the jungle down then build the mall,hotel,resort,roads etc.

I don't get it?  Where exactly has a mall (which is what is being discussed) been built in what was jungle?

[Different]

Newton Law-Karma is waiting for those criminals.

[jak2002003]

1 minute ago, Just Weird said:

I don't get it?  Where exactly has a mall (which is what is being discussed) been built in what was jungle?

All over Thailand.  And roads, factories, housing estates, towns and villages have all been built in what was jungle or wetlands.

 

There would have been elephants, rhino, tigers, bears, leopards, gibbons, crocodiles, deer, wild water buffalo and cattle, exotic birds, etc etc all over the country in huge numbers before the population of humans grew and destroyed most of the habitats. 

 

Now there are only fragments left with very few large animals surviving.  Even these few animals that are left, even the elephants, are still hunted illegally, persecuted, shot for eating crops, trapped and accidently killed in collisions with trains and cars.  The fragmented populations are isolated from each other and eventually will get inbred and die out if something is not done to help them.  

 

There is also a lot of good habitat left for these kind of animals, but they have been hunted out, and the powers that be have no way to stop the hunting, so reintroducing them won't work.  

 

This has all happened recently, perhaps over the last 100 - 200 years.  The last tiger was shot on Phuket in 1965.  Now the island is even capturing the remaining monkeys and sending them off to die out on small islands and they are 'annoying'.

 

 

 

 

[Odysseus123]

2 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

All over Thailand.  And roads, factories, housing estates, towns and villages have all been built in what was jungle or wetlands.

 

There would have been elephants, rhino, tigers, bears, leopards, gibbons, crocodiles, deer, wild water buffalo and cattle, exotic birds, etc etc all over the country in huge numbers before the population of humans grew and destroyed most of the habitats. 

 

Now there are only fragments left with very few large animals surviving.  Even these few animals that are left, even the elephants, are still hunted illegally, persecuted, shot for eating crops, trapped and accidently killed in collisions with trains and cars.  The fragmented populations are isolated from each other and eventually will get inbred and die out if something is not done to help them.  

 

There is also a lot of good habitat left for these kind of animals, but they have been hunted out, and the powers that be have no way to stop the hunting, so reintroducing them won't work.  

 

This has all happened recently, perhaps over the last 100 - 200 years.  The last tiger was shot on Phuket in 1965.  Now the island is even capturing the remaining monkeys and sending them off to die out on small islands and they are 'annoying'.

 

 

 

 

Well said.Spot  on.

[Jack100]

Get money ,get money , get money still ,

Let virtue follow -  if she will !

[Dinobot]

I would like to beat the mahouts and all attendees to this stupid event like they beat those elephants!