Phuket elephant hits out at mahout

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

'Grongthong' had to be shot with five tranquillizer darts before it was sedated. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: -- A 15-year-old male elephant showing signs of aggressive behaviour possibly due to it being the mating season thrashed it’s mahout yesterday leaving the man with an injured hand.

 

At 10:30am yesterday (Jan 30), Chalong Police received a call from the owner of an elephant camp in Soi Yodsanae, Moo10, Chalong where it reported that one of its elephant had started to be aggressive when taking tourists out on a trek.

 

Police advised the owner to call the Phuket Provincial Livestock Office (PPLO), officers from which then went to the area in the Nakkerd Hills.

 

PPLO officials arrived to find police officers and the mahout, or elephant handler, watching an elephant named “Grongthong” walking through the forested area.

 

PPLO officers decided that it would be necessary to use a tranquillizer gun to sedate the animal and used three darts in their first attempt. This was not enough and therefore another two darts were shot.

 

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-elephant-hits-out-at-mahout-60848.php

 

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Elephants being Elephants TIT

Hope the elephant is ok.

..just two days after a similar incident in Phang Nga in which a mahout was killed and a Russian woman with an eight-month-old baby spent a terrifying 30 minutes sitting in the howdah atop the raging elephant.

Previous warnings go unheeded then, (what a surprise!) as a potentially raging elephant was still being used to ferry passengers around?  I see he was in the Nakkerd Hills, so perhaps after all that work, he was just nackered?

I wish the PTB would just order the release of all the heffalumps back into the jungles where they belong.

 

The ordeals inflicted on these beautiful creatures are horrific, it's not really surprising that they snap and go a bit wonky so often.

 

Same applies to slow loris, iguana, any type of bird and all the other exploited wildlife here. Ugh.

Im a bit similar when Im in "musth".

Ah, this mornings 'feel good' story.

fester the benevolent

I agree with your post,but does the "any type of bird,and any other exploited wildlife here "apply to the Isaan birds and wildlife in Soi 6?

3 hours ago, Khon Kaen Dave said:

fester the benevolent

I agree with your post,but does the "any type of bird,and any other exploited wildlife here "apply to the Isaan birds and wildlife in Soi 6?

Soi 6? New venue in Patong or Phuket Town?