News Forum - Elephant rips mahout’s body in half in southern Thailand

[Thaiger]

An elephant ripped its mahout in half with its tusks yesterday morning at a rubber plantation in southern Thailand’s Phang Nga province. Police think the elephant was annoyed at its owner for making it haul rubberwood in the hot weather. At 11.30am, officers from Takua Thung Police Station were informed that a mahout was killed by a 20 year old male elephant named Pom Pam in Tha Yu subdistrict. Police, the village chief and rescue workers rushed to the scene where they found the body of 32 year old Supachai Wongfaed ripped in two parts in a pool of blood […]

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[Farang69]

Elephants are highly intelligent and have more smarts than their slave masters. 

Be kind to not only people, but animals also.

[DesperateOldHand]

Nature's revenge.

[HolyCowCm]

Bummer. Leave the elephant alone. 

[KhakiShorts]

They didn't mention what happened to the elephant. Was he let free or euthanized? 

[HiuMak]

RIP

[Mandy]

The elephants have finally had  enough,  too many elephants kept for tourists pleasure and worked to death, saw a baby elephant clearly distressed walking up and down its tiny pen, swaying it's head, while it's mother was forced to take people on rides at the rain tree just outside of kanchanaburi. Clearly not a good sign for the future of the owner or future riders of the troubled baby.

[Pinetree]

1 minute ago, Mandy said:

The elephants have finally had  enough,  too many elephants kept for tourists pleasure and worked to death, saw a baby elephant clearly distressed walking up and down its tiny pen, swaying it's head, while it's mother was forced to take people on rides at the rain tree just outside of kanchanaburi. Clearly not a good sign for the future of the owner or future riders of the troubled baby.

The fault lies as much with the ignorant tourists as it does with the elephant owners.  Too many people travel to these parts of the World in blissful ignorance of many things, including endemic animal cruelty. 

[Tim_Melb]

The lesson is that elephants are intelligent animals if the mahout treats his elephant well and makes it feel they are a team they get much better results than treating them like slaves. An older mahout once told me his elephants were members of his family and younger guys that treated their animals badly  will always pay the price in the end.