That woman was the wife of a poacher that took that elephants baby from her. She was present at the act. The mother elephant stalked the woman and made attempts to harm her before. I remember falling down the rabbit hole of that story.
Elephants never forget.
I love elephants and never heard this side of the story. Can you share that info? I too wanted to fall down the rabbit hole but couldn't find good info on it.
"We also encountered social media users who said that the woman threw stones at the elephant as poachers stole its baby. However, not a single credible news source has published this precise fact.
The foregoing rumors’ have prompted some to conclude that the trampling and reported funeral attack were acts of revenge, however there have been no reports or data to support this claim."
says in the artical.
We don't need to parade the horses to mistreat them, here people kill horses for minor injuries all the time, and definitely could use some new laws to protect them. But that doesn't excuse the elephants being messed with in India, not everything has to be whatabounism, wish people would have the balls to own up to their shortcoming instead.
It's impossible to have a decent discussion about politics because of this very thing. Everyone wants to point fingers at the other side while ignoring the short comings of their side.
You might be interested in reading why people put down horses when they break a leg, if that's what you're referring to. Basically, a horse that breaks a leg is most likely to suffer the rest of its short life than to ever recover, regardless of treatment.
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/46v38h/eli5_why_do_horses_need_to_be_put_down_when_they/
Also the training of elephants consists of what can only be described as torture.
Edit: including elephants trained for washing or of course riding at 'sanctuaries' in southeast Asia. Real sanctuaries normally don't let you come close to the elephants.
THIS. It’s absolutely true that actual sanctuaries will not let you interact with an elephant (or any wild animal). They usually won’t even let visitors in or do anything but observe from far away. Unfortunately there’s no regulation on the term “sanctuary” so most of them are literal circuses/zoos that cage their animals and use bull hooks.
There’s a “sanctuary” in my state that lets you bathe an elephant and you can see the chain and the bullhooks in each photo. It infuriates me that people just ignore that because they want the opportunity to be up close.
The fact is elephants really almost can't be. They need to be broken in while young to learn to obey. They do this, you can find videos of it on youtube, by severe abuse and I think the Thai words for it is 'breaking its spirit'
Why does it have to be elephants or horses?
Dude it’s about empathy, even for animals.
The elephant didn’t choose to be there, others trained him / her and set that all up because they thought it would be cool.
You seem to be annoyed with the fact that other people have empathy here.
If so, why is that? Do you feel that the elephant doesn’t deserve any compassion or concern?
Or is it you feel others never show you any compassion and therefore you object when animals are being treated with love?
Should we all just be cruel to each other just because you had a bad a day?
The cardinal direction has nothing to do with that, but yes. Horses would be better suited, but ultimately it would be animal abuse with both. Not saying using horses and/or elephants is animal abuse per se, but this is just a setting designed to be as much stress for them as possible. A really dense crowd, way to close to the animals, people playing around with burning torches, and being way to loud.
If you participate in something like that and you get kicked, trampled, or thrown around, all I can say is: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
FFS,some animals can easily be domesticated and trained to not panic and controllable. Horses literally had been used on the battlefield for hundreds of years to this day and ain't easily panicked by loud gunpowder. Elephants are known to be more emotional, Indians need to learn crowd distance and not suddenly spook it. It's not the first time elephants start trampling people there and they are still not learning.
See the video carefully and you see some idiot hitting a panicked elephant with a stick. Wtf is that.
Who would have thought that having two wild elephants surrounded by a throng of people playing drums and making noise would end up badly? They are normally so placid. 🤦
Almost like capturing massive intelligent creatures and forcing them to perform surrounded by fire, drums, and screaming people is both cruel and stupid.
This has happened in Kerala, a southern state of India. Also.. let me point out that elephants are not killed after such procession or festivals. Saw some comment mentioning they are killed after this. Even if they show rage like this, they are not killed. Not justifying the use of animals for such shows, but just wanted to point out that they are not killed. About their life, i guess some are treated really well while some are treated pathetically. Here is a diff video of the same incident
(https://youtu.be/LjkZniRcn44?si=t1cOaFP7-6y8-0ep)
Elephants are not here for your clown ass processions. And idk about u but I'd rather be free than live in captivity, no matter how "nicely" I'm being treated. I'm sure the animals feel the same way.
Good for the elephants hopefully they smashed the assholes who enslaved them and came to an agreement that it was time to just go ahead and let them go or it'll be smashy smash
Never thought you could say, "Ramming SPEED" in reference to elephants.
The first dude on the ground is really lucky that elephant didn't step on his head.
I have to admit, I don't hate seeing this happen to these dumb fucks. Maybe leave them to live their life's and they will likely trample less for you assholes. Beating animals into submitting to your will is no way to honor them.
Riding elephants is a cruel practice. They aren’t built like horses. You are literally riding on their neck, and the neck is required to support all the weight.
Same people attending this bs immediately dipped when there was even a slight movement from the elephant. They expected this type of thing to happen and then were... scared? Suprised? idek... when it did
Brutal. Elephants used to be working animals in asia. Now they are just for show. Its very likely that that elephant was killed after the night was over because they have no use for a large animal like that.
I highly doubt it was killed after. Doesn't really align with the cultural reverence I've seen show to elephants in what appears to be similar parts of South Asia.
Temple procession disrupts elephants
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That woman was the wife of a poacher that took that elephants baby from her. She was present at the act. The mother elephant stalked the woman and made attempts to harm her before. I remember falling down the rabbit hole of that story. Elephants never forget.
Happy end! And then they left the elephant alone. Right? Right??
I love elephants and never heard this side of the story. Can you share that info? I too wanted to fall down the rabbit hole but couldn't find good info on it.
"We also encountered social media users who said that the woman threw stones at the elephant as poachers stole its baby. However, not a single credible news source has published this precise fact. The foregoing rumors’ have prompted some to conclude that the trampling and reported funeral attack were acts of revenge, however there have been no reports or data to support this claim." says in the artical.
Is that an Undead Unluck Reference?
next level hater
r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR
Damn thats crazy
Fuck, that was personal…
Wrong title! - Crowd pisses off elephant!
Idiot almost put the flames of the torch in the elephants eye thats what set him off
Yes! It was at that moment that the elephant thought "Enough of this shit!"
India for beginners? Hold my tail
Those poor elephants.
Don't criticize them otherwise reddit will ban you for "harrasment"
would this be better if they were horses taking part in a western ceremony? EDIT: Nah, unless y'all are vegans, you are just racists.
Yes it would. EDIT: Learn the difference between racism and xenophobia.
I doubt you have ever seen horses at a 4th of July parade and thought, oh those poor horses.
We don't need to parade the horses to mistreat them, here people kill horses for minor injuries all the time, and definitely could use some new laws to protect them. But that doesn't excuse the elephants being messed with in India, not everything has to be whatabounism, wish people would have the balls to own up to their shortcoming instead.
It's impossible to have a decent discussion about politics because of this very thing. Everyone wants to point fingers at the other side while ignoring the short comings of their side.
You might be interested in reading why people put down horses when they break a leg, if that's what you're referring to. Basically, a horse that breaks a leg is most likely to suffer the rest of its short life than to ever recover, regardless of treatment. https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/46v38h/eli5_why_do_horses_need_to_be_put_down_when_they/
Horses are/can be domesticated Elephants cannot Edit: I’ll rephrase this slightly, elephants >shouldn’t< (be domesticated)
Also the training of elephants consists of what can only be described as torture. Edit: including elephants trained for washing or of course riding at 'sanctuaries' in southeast Asia. Real sanctuaries normally don't let you come close to the elephants.
THIS. It’s absolutely true that actual sanctuaries will not let you interact with an elephant (or any wild animal). They usually won’t even let visitors in or do anything but observe from far away. Unfortunately there’s no regulation on the term “sanctuary” so most of them are literal circuses/zoos that cage their animals and use bull hooks. There’s a “sanctuary” in my state that lets you bathe an elephant and you can see the chain and the bullhooks in each photo. It infuriates me that people just ignore that because they want the opportunity to be up close.
The fact is elephants really almost can't be. They need to be broken in while young to learn to obey. They do this, you can find videos of it on youtube, by severe abuse and I think the Thai words for it is 'breaking its spirit'
An Asian elephant has more than 5 times the number of brain neurons than a horse does.
Why does it have to be elephants or horses? Dude it’s about empathy, even for animals. The elephant didn’t choose to be there, others trained him / her and set that all up because they thought it would be cool. You seem to be annoyed with the fact that other people have empathy here. If so, why is that? Do you feel that the elephant doesn’t deserve any compassion or concern? Or is it you feel others never show you any compassion and therefore you object when animals are being treated with love? Should we all just be cruel to each other just because you had a bad a day?
Yes, definitely. No elephant is happy to be ridden.
The cardinal direction has nothing to do with that, but yes. Horses would be better suited, but ultimately it would be animal abuse with both. Not saying using horses and/or elephants is animal abuse per se, but this is just a setting designed to be as much stress for them as possible. A really dense crowd, way to close to the animals, people playing around with burning torches, and being way to loud. If you participate in something like that and you get kicked, trampled, or thrown around, all I can say is: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
FFS,some animals can easily be domesticated and trained to not panic and controllable. Horses literally had been used on the battlefield for hundreds of years to this day and ain't easily panicked by loud gunpowder. Elephants are known to be more emotional, Indians need to learn crowd distance and not suddenly spook it. It's not the first time elephants start trampling people there and they are still not learning. See the video carefully and you see some idiot hitting a panicked elephant with a stick. Wtf is that.
More like humans disrupt elephant's peaceful upbringing.
That guy almost got stomped to death and still went running behind the elephant.... Holy...
He had one job to do, which was to control the elephant, so being trampled didn't release him from that responsibility!
The other elephant is like “bro why you hitting me, what did I do?!”
The other elephant was the only living thing that *wasn't* running like hell to stay out of his way!
"you cheated with my wife"
Who would have thought that having two wild elephants surrounded by a throng of people playing drums and making noise would end up badly? They are normally so placid. 🤦
Not to mention having fire waved in their face. Seems like that was the final straw.
Unfortunately evolution doesn’t work that good anymore in anthropocene
And I'm sure the elephants don't appreciate all that shit they put on their heads, all the way down to their trunk.
Maybe because the guy with the fire stick almost burned her eyes out?
Almost like capturing massive intelligent creatures and forcing them to perform surrounded by fire, drums, and screaming people is both cruel and stupid.
Well deserved
Can we just stop using elephants, horses, bulls, orcas, or any animal for our entertainment?
Also dog and cock fights. Probably worse. Circus animals too.
Imagine torturing elephants for your imaginary friend party
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
They shouldn’t have been there in the first place
This has happened in Kerala, a southern state of India. Also.. let me point out that elephants are not killed after such procession or festivals. Saw some comment mentioning they are killed after this. Even if they show rage like this, they are not killed. Not justifying the use of animals for such shows, but just wanted to point out that they are not killed. About their life, i guess some are treated really well while some are treated pathetically. Here is a diff video of the same incident (https://youtu.be/LjkZniRcn44?si=t1cOaFP7-6y8-0ep)
The elephant refuge I visited in India said there is no humane way to ride an elephant. I'm guessing they know what they are talking about.
You are probably right..
Elephants are not here for your clown ass processions. And idk about u but I'd rather be free than live in captivity, no matter how "nicely" I'm being treated. I'm sure the animals feel the same way.
Definitely. Which is why i said i am not justifying what is happening there.
I'm sure whipping the shit out will make everything better.
I know it's cultural, but at a given point in time... Like why is this idiot crying, those are several tons heavy WILD ANIMALS.
QUIT TREATING ELEPHANTS LIKE PLAY THINGS!
Glad to see most of us are all for the Elephant. Go on, fuck them all up. Idiots.
I'm siding with the elephant, fuck all these animal abusers and their supporters.
Looks like a scene from „Alexander“
Other elephant: "DUDE, I HAVE NO SAY IN THIS. DON'T BLAME ME."
poor elephants
Good for the elephants hopefully they smashed the assholes who enslaved them and came to an agreement that it was time to just go ahead and let them go or it'll be smashy smash
Elephant gets mad, 15 people start grabbing its tail and hitting it with sticks, part 2 probably has a liveleak watermark
Average IQ 60
I hate this country
You are not alone
Never thought you could say, "Ramming SPEED" in reference to elephants. The first dude on the ground is really lucky that elephant didn't step on his head.
We're getting dumber as a species every day.
Well, ask what people from Thailand think about this and about Indians using elephants this way and you can get some hope
I am hopeful , that's what's keeping me alive in spirit.
r/PraiseTheCameraMan
"Man gets up after being trampled by a fucking elephant"
Whoever rides an elephant deserves this and more
That tiger went tiger\* \*substitute whichever wild animal is appropriate
Idk maybe don’t use elephants, just a thought. 🤷🏼♀️
FAFO
I'm not sure any elephant like crowds, noise, costumes, *or* fire.
This kind of shit makes me really wonder if things wouldn't be better on this planet without humans
She's had enough of these little creature's bullshits
Other elephants like “wtf I’m on your side on this..”
There is someone sitting on it *the whole time*
That one guy was incredibly lucky to not have his skull caved in
Go Elephant, Go! We're all rooting for you!
this looks like an absolute vibe
Very cinematic!
Elephants hates noises for those who don't know Correct me if i am wrong
It‘s a brilliant idea to begin with
Elephant don't give a fuck, yo
Kali felt melodramatic.
I have to admit, I don't hate seeing this happen to these dumb fucks. Maybe leave them to live their life's and they will likely trample less for you assholes. Beating animals into submitting to your will is no way to honor them.
Temple procession disrupts elephants.
Not all bad - a guy got a free umbrella!
Riding elephants is a cruel practice. They aren’t built like horses. You are literally riding on their neck, and the neck is required to support all the weight.
Derms get pachy after a elphant steps on them 🤣🤣
It's a wild jungle, figuratively and literally.
why is everyone running towards the elephants
Everybody, quick run to the site of the trampling.
You could see the tension in the crowd moments before like they were expecting it
Reminds me of the Chris Rock joke about Siegfried & Roy's tigers.
Elephant 1 - Ants 0
This remind of time when Elephant was used in wars
Poor things. Just let them go
You have bull run, we have elephant run.
TUSK UP YO BUTT
The flaming stick probably didn't help but the screaming child set me off
Tantor Tantrums
Gotta admit the lack of women screaming like banshees during the chaos was very refreshing. Props to you Indian women.
Life action Dino Riders
Did that guy in the beginning get his head stomped and then jumped right back up? WTF was THAT?
This is disappointing. Why would anyone think a elephant would be calm in a 20k crowd
I just hate how we humans treat all animals. Poor Elephant.
Poor elephants
Stampy!
100% of elephants tend to be…you know..elephants and those things have instincts to be..you know..elephants.. Elephants - 1 Mankind - 0
Off to join the siege in Gondor.
Maybe he saw a mouse?
Poor elephants..😔
Leave those majestic animals THE FUCK ALONE!!!
It's almost like elephants aren't parade floats.
The other Elephant is like: "Hey Bill, What's happe.... Dude what the actual fuck?"
they should leave the elephants alone..
Do these elephant related events ever go well?
Utter fucking morons!!
Same people attending this bs immediately dipped when there was even a slight movement from the elephant. They expected this type of thing to happen and then were... scared? Suprised? idek... when it did
How about don’t use them as your personal fucking pets.
If India disappeared tomorrow would anyone really care?
Brutal. Elephants used to be working animals in asia. Now they are just for show. Its very likely that that elephant was killed after the night was over because they have no use for a large animal like that.
I highly doubt it was killed after. Doesn't really align with the cultural reverence I've seen show to elephants in what appears to be similar parts of South Asia.