News Forum - Decapitated dugong washes up on beach in southern Thailand

[Thaiger]

A decapitated dugong with wounds all over its body washed up on a beach on Koh Sriboya island in Krabi province in southern Thailand yesterday. It’s a tragic event considering that dugongs are protected by Thai law and there are only an estimated 200 of them left in Thailand’s waters. The carcass of a two-metre-long …

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[Karolyn]

Well were the tusks removed?

[PapayaBokBok]

Although, it is possible that someone deliberately decapitated the dugong for its tusks, which are believed to be auspicious by some people and can be sold for a high price, said Yongyut.

 

ni hao....

[Guest1]

3 hours ago, Karolyn said:

Well were the tusks removed?

assumingly that is, why the head is gone? no proove

[Smiler]

Decapitated with a knife because ignorant stupid people want the tusks because of some mambo jumbo beliefs so sad, tigers, rhino, elephant, bears, pangolin and many other precious species being targeted due to superstitions which have no scientific basis at all, makes me want to scream and we all know which country feeds the trade in endangered animals, yes it’s the same one where the coronavirus originated. 

[Pinetree]

1 hour ago, Smiler said:

Decapitated with a knife because ignorant stupid people want the tusks because of some mambo jumbo beliefs so sad, tigers, rhino, elephant, bears, pangolin and many other precious species being targeted due to superstitions which have no scientific basis at all, makes me want to scream and we all know which country feeds the trade in endangered animals, yes it’s the same one where the coronavirus originated. 

Sadly. ignorance, and especially cruelty to dumb animals,  is the default setting for human kind.  We are the most dangerous species to the Earth and to all other species, including ourselves.  But Nature will get its revenge at some point. Covid was just a taster of what is to come. 

[Pinetree]

On 4/22/2023 at 12:58 AM, PapayaBokBok said:

believed to be auspicious by some people

You missed out the words stupid and ignorant in front of 'people'.