Keeper in a coma after elephant attack in Lampang

 

Picture: Daily News

 

LAMPANG: -- An elephant keeper is fighting for his life in a Lampang hospital after he was stamped on by an elephant in musth.

 

Three men were leading the 50 year old bull elephant to water after doing some logging work in the jungle at the Mae Sai Kham elephant camp, reports Daily News.

 

Suddenly the pachyderm kicked out at Korn Wongsingh, 62, and stamped on his chest and arm. He suffered several broken bones and it took 45 minutes to get him out of the jungle area to hospital.

 

Korn remains in ER in a coma.

 

Source: Daily News

 

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Elephants have good memories 

I thought logging in natural forests was banned in Thailand 

1 hour ago, exalll said:

I thought logging in natural forests was banned in Thailand 

Depends on who you are logging for.

2 hours ago, TheFishman1 said:

Elephants have good memories 

 

"A musth elephant, wild or domesticated, is extremely dangerous to both humans and other elephants. 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"

What humans are doing around a bull elephant in musth beats me!

 

Musth (occurs only in bull elephants) is accompanied by up to 60 times the usual levels of testosterone and to swellings in the head that are said to be like root absess toothache. Anyone approaching an elephant in musth is going to be attacked, no matter how domesticated and good nature the elephant usually is.

 

Usually such elephants are put in isolation until Musth is abated. 

 

This sounds like the basis of a new defence ploy for Nott the luxury Mini road rager:  "Sorry, I was in a state of Musth. Mommy has always told me to never drive in Musth but I forgot." - It might explain a lot of wierd happenings here.