After you've seen this, you'll never go back to elephant again.

The horrible truth that you hide elephants in Thailand

Elephant backwalks are part of the recurring activities in Asia and, in particular, Thailand . This kind of ride can be pleasant and unpleasant, but it is important to know that if the elephants obey their dressers as much, it is because it hides an atrocious reality, namely, the torture of these poor animals.

Before you explain in more detail the horrific "training" inflicted on Asian elephants, here is a small return on a recent fact:

That would be one. revenge reaction To his executioner? For yes, an elephant does not act like this without reason. And when you discover the rest of this article, you will not have any pity for this deceased dresser.

Elephant-backed walks make every year the happiness of millions of tourists in Asia, especially in Thailand. However, few tourists are aware of what hides this flourishing "business": to dress them, men inflict real torture on elephants . Nothing is exaggerated in this assertion, as evidenced by this video of the ritual called “phoajaan” that trainers suffer to these majestic animals. Careful, sensitive souls abstain .

The aim of this suplice is to "break the spirit" of the elephant. In a very complete article about this, the blog travels Seth and Lise explains that “the origin of the phajaan comes from an ancestral belief that one can separate the spirit of an elephant from his body so that he may lose his reflexes and his wild natural instinct and be completely under the control of man. In their memory, an irreversible fear of man is established.”

And unfortunately, only the violence is used by trainers. Torture that the elephant endures (young in general) can be between 4 and 6 days. The beasts are separated from their mother and locked up and chained into exiguous cages. Without even being able to debate, they are then repeatedly struck with a bullhook (an ancestral tool in the form of a pointed hammer or ice pick) in the most sensitive places.

The most sensitive points of the animal: the target of trainers – Credit – www.peta.de

Once the elephant is tortured, and his fear of the man well anchored in his memory , the elephant then gets dressed in order to serve most of his life to the pleasure of the tourists. Note that the phajaan continues throughout the life of the elephant, every day, with a bullhook every time the elephant does not obey.

In addition, it is necessary to know that an elephant, despite its imposing size, can only bear 150 kg on its back. The weight of the nacelle, the two tourists, as well as the dresser can quickly reach 300 kg. When you know that the elephant receives tourists on his back all day, you suffer for him.

This practice undoubtedly contributes to the massive extinction of biodiversity on Earth.

An elephant on two dies during this ritual atroce

Tourists on an elephant in Thailand – Flickr – David Bailey

It is estimated that half of the elephants do not survive phajaan ritual . If the majority of them obey thereafter, some elephants become aggressive. A hundred trainers (or mahouts ) are killed every year by their animals. Neither do we count those who become mad or keep troubles of their cruel experience, making them "unusable". The latter are then killed .

So here, if you feel powerless about the abuse of these animals, the simple fact of not doing this kind of activity in Asia (or elsewhere) will already be a great service to elephants. And do not veil your face, if in the circus the elephants obey as much to their master, it is because they are treated in the same way . Almost all of the dominated elephants suffered this torture.

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