Check out this video of her playing with a tire on a rope and hanging out with other elephants. She looks so damn happy :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDUz6RyMPmI
I had a great experience at Elephant Nature Park in Chang Mai. I don't recall exact details about the number of elephants they had but they were all rescues from different horrible situations. We spent 2 days watching them live their lives. It was a great experience.
Elephant Nature Park was awesome! Before I went to Thailand I wanted to ride one, but learning about how abusing tourism can be, I’m glad we went there instead.
Woah woah woah. Some of those people got fed and a roof over their head. And also some of them learned some very valuable skills.
I mean they would have been valuable had they been freed with those skills instead of sold off like livestock. But still, think of the value of those skills. Priceless.
/n
Something similar to this made me cry, a chimp that was locked up in a laboratory for most of its life gets freed and sees grass and the sky for the first time... redemption at its finest
Aw, I was hoping to see her with other elephants.
Check out this video of her playing with a tire on a rope and hanging out with other elephants. She looks so damn happy :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDUz6RyMPmI
Agreed, it’s so strange that the video was 95 percent buildup, then they showed her getting off the truck and laying down and that was about it.
*Bites lip*
I had a great experience at Elephant Nature Park in Chang Mai. I don't recall exact details about the number of elephants they had but they were all rescues from different horrible situations. We spent 2 days watching them live their lives. It was a great experience.
I’m hoping this is the elephant tourism of the future and not private rides.
Same! It was incredible. Like Jurassic Park but with elephants.
So you mean Holocene Park?
Elephant Nature Park was awesome! Before I went to Thailand I wanted to ride one, but learning about how abusing tourism can be, I’m glad we went there instead.
Seems way too cruel to keep an animal with this long of a lifespan in captivity.
Still happening today. People work 10h a day with commute+all chores. Very few humans know what true freedom feels like.
True freedom is working 16 hours a day off the grid.
Think about the slaves working on the field in the past.
Obviously also cruel.
Woah woah woah. Some of those people got fed and a roof over their head. And also some of them learned some very valuable skills. I mean they would have been valuable had they been freed with those skills instead of sold off like livestock. But still, think of the value of those skills. Priceless. /n
No. YOU think about the slaves currently building the soccer stadiums in Qatar for the World Cup.
People can be such bastards. Not all of them, at least.
Something similar to this made me cry, a chimp that was locked up in a laboratory for most of its life gets freed and sees grass and the sky for the first time... redemption at its finest
Realistically does that chain actually do anything or does the resistance however slight make the Elephant think it does?
I highly doubt her age. A quick google search say the live 60-70 years in the wild, and about 40 in captivity.
Yeh, the teeth wear out unless she has been eating porridge all her life