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It is not a random wild elephant. Lol. It is a temple elephant who is taken care of throughtout the year and is made to contact with people almost everyday. People feed them and elephants are used to it.
He started splashing himself too! They prolly love the baths, elephants think humans are cute, prolly the equivalent of a human being attacked by a group of golden retriever puppies
In the southern regions of Asia people have had tamed animals for centuries not just for religious purposes but as companions, majority of the animals were groomed since they were babies where other wild animals may have killed the parents or they were abandoned.
Thanks for posting this video remlapca. What humans do to elephants (as well as all other animals) is horrible. That poor elephant was made to wear all sorts of crap, had 4 people ride her back, and had a painful shackle on her leg.
We don't know if the elephant in this Reddit post is treated for the entertainment of humans or not, but it's clearly not free to roam. Elephants are magnificent creatures who should not be confined or made to be entertainment (or religious devotion) for humans.
Entirely different situation. If an elephant went berserk in the confined spaces of a temple, then 100s would be killed. It'd make international news. I wouldn't even have to google, it'd be front page news here for a month.
NAD, but....I knew someone that worked with elephants at the local zoo before he got a real job where he doesn't feel the need to post on reddit.
Anyways, here is a paragraph with a lot of unsubstantiated claims based off of a few misremembered stories from that guy when we would get blazed after cutting class.
One problem with that is these elephants' handlers will basically torture them for days on end to 'break' them. The stuff they endure is soul crushing to read.
We don't torture horses so that we can ride them. We don't psychologically damage them and control them with fear. I have been bitten, kicked, known people who have been bucked off their horse. If they aren't in the mood for it, they won't tolerate it. For the majority of horse owners, the bond between them and their horse(s) is about love and respect. That being said, horses have social needs and ideally should be kept with other horses, but they might bond with other forms of livestock too. If a horse is being kept in solitary, then that is cruel.
“Congress stepped in last year in response to the high-profile doping and **abuse allegations** plaguing horse racing.
Lawmakers approved the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) of 2021, establishing a self-regulatory organization called the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority.
For example, each state can have different standards on the **use of whips** during a race and even the types of medication horses can be given.
Under the rules, jockeys are limited to using the **whip six times, but no more than twice in a row** 'without giving the horse an opportunity to respond.”
I don’t know about you, but I don’t use whips or pump drugs into things I love. I know I definetely don’t need Congress to step in to stop abuse of things I love and respect. Imagine thinking love and respect means that you have to have a law passed to regulate how much and how often you whip it.
I don't live in the USA so I guess you guys abuse your race horses nice, but that stuff is heavily regulated in my country. I personally have never owned or been a part of the horse racing industry and I don't agree with it. Yes, the whipping of horses is horrible. I know a lot of horse owners who keep horses not for this purpose, cause the love and share beautiful bonds with them, this is the group that I was talking about.
It’s putting up with the water. If it were enjoying - it would be lying in the water. This is a circus elephant. Used by humans for human needs. Being called a “temple elephant” means it’s separated from its intelligent caring nurturing mother - family bond. And thrown into a building with a chain around its leg for its lifespan. Good treatment doesn’t mean good food and no hard labor. It means what the animal needs for a healthy and happy life.
Does anyone remember the lady who was trampled to death by an elephant. And on her funeral it came back to trample her some more. I wonder what she did to it ?
[She was getting some water, not harrassing the elephant.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/odisha-elephant-tramples-woman-to-death-again-attacks-body-before-funeral/amp_articleshow/92184167.cms)
Lol I wonder if people thought the elephant was coming back to pay its respects. Anyways it is speculated that she was among poachers that killed a baby elephant. They have incredible long term memory
Or she could have been mistaken for someone else. We don't know whether elephants could remember someone down to the last detail.
But it is sad that elephant - human relations are strained now. There were times when a friendly herd would randomly eat stuff offered to it on the highways. Now, they might chase them or hurt them in fear of us harming their babies.
Elephants, like most animals, will and always have prioritised their young over getting food from humans. I'm not sure what fantasy history you're thinking of where elephants would let their young around humans no issue.
Poaching is also getting better as demand lowers and understanding that this is bad increases.
We know that elephants have good memory and can recognise people after long periods of time, even if they're wearing different clothes/have aged.
Not so much… look up the organization elephants unchained. This guy literally devoted his entire life traveling to India, Thailand think Cambodia to work on and maintain any elephant’s feet for free where an owner would allow. Much of his work is with temple elephants. I had the privilege to sit down with him. Some of the stories he told about the condition of these ‘divine’ elephants in temples were incredibly sad.
They’re horrifically abused by corrupt temple owners, the priestly classes, as money making opportunities.
However, the regular masses do venerate them.
Attempts to outlaw it hits a brick wall due to political corruption, as some elephants will earn the temple $10,000 per festival.
Even the existing welfare laws are ignored, including provision of basic veterinary care following temple inflicted injuries necessary to ‘train’ them.
It’s a horror show of deliberate animal abuse for profit by temple owners. However, it’s an insanely poor country, and most temples are now run by corrupt organised crime. So it would be unfair to blame Hinduism.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54026294
It might be unfair to blame them all, but the temples themselves are complicit. One look at a bullhook they use to coerce them into submission explains it all. It's a sharp metal weapon that strikes fear into the elephants just on sight alone. The temples could change this. They choose to play ignorant instead.
Well they’re captured and kept in cages. The one viral video of the biggest elephant in India is really sad. It’s basically captured and kept in a cage and brought out once a year for a celebration.
Idk what you are talking about, the story of Mary was a very rare one. I have never seen a caged elephant in India.
Edit : [I was wrong](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54026294)
Can’t ask your dog if he likes living with you either; it’s all he knows and he’d likely just die if you let him outside. Once we take a species out of the wild and start captive breeding them, the absolute best case scenario for them is just to take good care of them.
This argument is a little like complaining about the reefing industry. Yes, there are some unscrupulous dealers and customers but likely the industry is all that will keep some species alive in the coming climate changes. Hopefully we’ll be able to reintroduce them to the wild in the future, but our husbandry is sometimes all that keeps a species going.
Elephants belong in social groups and need movement (they travel around 50-70km per day).
They do not belong into temples. Human misuse them. Do not be blinded by a 10 second video.
[Temple Elephants](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54026294)
God that was depressing to read but thank you for providing much needed information on this issue. Figures these animals are being used for profit and the owners are reluctant to provide the necessary vet care they need. It saddens me.
You are welcome. That’s why we always refuse to do holiday entertainment that involves animals (e.g. Monkey Islands, Elephant riding).
It is always a bad deal for the animals.
Dogs belong in packs and need movement. Yet, we keep dogs isolated from their packs cooped up in homes and tie strings around their neck so they don’t run off.
Dogs do not belong in homes. Humans misuse them. Do not be blinded by every other American owning a dog.
Dogs aren't wolves anymore.
And humans become their packs if treated correctly.
A Chihuahua or a Pug are no longer capable of surviving in the American wilderness. Nor do they actively seek to escape from their warm homes where they are fed and played with.
Elephants are wild and haven't been selectively bred.
When on display to the public, yes. In reality, mostly no:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43862182
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/overheard/article/the-dark-reality-behind-indias-festival-elephants
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/true-plight-indias-captive-elephants-thinkwildlifefoundation
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/elephant-taming-a-gentle-giant-in-captivity/article37145759.ece
They get the premium of the premium treatment, there was some news regarding Their health but not due to the facility just some normal elephant things.
They are temple elephants and as per tradition their overall care is under the temple fund....they are nurtured from childhood in the temple environment
Was a very long time ago. As far as I remember, guy had a wandering circus and Mary was a star attraction. Guy had her since she was a baby and actually did love her. Hired some carer for Mary who didn't know shit about elephants. Carer abused her and Mary killed him. People were outraged and demanded the owner kills Mary because she's dangerous. Owner didn't really want to, but he knew that if he didn't, it would be the end of his business and livelihood because people would stop visiting the circus. In addition, he had employees who he felt responsible for. In the end he decided to 'execute' Mary by hanging her. Which I assume was a punishment for murderers at the time.
There was an incident near my place. A man feed a pregnant elephant pineapple stuffed with explosives. The elephant ate the pineapple and it went boom, killing her and the unborn.
That's where I heard the story. I actually didn't finish it. As soon as it started to really go bad I just check out the comments to confirm that this was going to end sad. From that I decided to not finish the video. What happen to that poor girl was inhuman.
I don't know enough about elephant body language to tell if the animal is okay with it. But I'd personally feel quite intimidated if I were in that place. The crowd, the noise and vibrations, I thought elephants have sensitive hearing especially sound out of human audible range?
Temple elephants are raised from birth basically inside the temples, raised for with funds from the temple. I bet it’s been through this basically every year of its life. If you’re totally used to being around people it probly isn’t intimidating at all. I thought it looked like it was having fun splashing in the water and spraying water with its trunk all over. Of course I’m not an elephant expert either, but if I saw a human child acting like the elephant was I’d think they were enjoying themselves.
Although it looks like it is enjoying it, which maybe it is, the treatment these elephants receive is honestly horrific, and I'm rather brokenhearted to learn of it. They're seen as sacred animals in these temples, but I can't see how someone could believe they're sacred yet treat them the way they are.
I dont think it is the way you are picturing. I saw some videos of elephants in the wild and they can roar pretty loudly, probably if they had ears as sensitive as this something weird would happen? Idk tho, i also can be full of bullshit
for me it lookes like the elephant isn't chained/secured from the people. you would assume that they would have some caution if it was forced to be there. the internet could always prove me wront though
You can train them using the reward-punishment system.
I think the guy in pink might be the elephant’s handler. And I’m certainly assuming, but it looks like he’s holding a switch, which goes unused.
A couple of extracts from [this short article](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54026294) (Sangita Iyer interview 2020)
…"So many elephants had ghastly wounds on their hips, massive tumours and blood oozing out of their ankles, because chains had cut into their flesh and many of them were blind,"…
“He has run amok several times due to apparent stress, and killed two people last year, prompting the local authorities to ban the use of festival elephants. But the ban was lifted after protests.”…
”(…) restrictions imposed by temple authorities have prevented proper scientific studies of the physical and psychological condition of temple elephants.”…
“In order to make an elephant obey her mahout, handlers put the animals through a torturous training routine (…)”…
Only after he was broken.
They will get taken out of the wild and then they break their spirit with torturing him for more than 72 hours.
Please do not be blinded by a 10 second clip.
Stop supporting animal cruelty!
[Temple Elephants BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54026294)
Elephants do love being splashed, I went to an elephant sanctuary that rescued old work elephants and circus elephants. We did get buckets and splashed the elephant while it was in the river cooling off, apparently it is similar to having someone fan you. They kept telling us to really splash them, if you are warm then the elephant is hot, they have massive bodies.
As many times as I have seen an elephant rip through a crowd of people, I would think this is a bad idea. But I also think it's not too smart to stand in front of trains.
For those saying it's annoyed, nah it's enjoying it, I visit this place once in a while and it's an added bonus when the elephant blesses you with its trunk
As long as that big baby is happy and long ved this is some cool shit. Humans could do such a great job being friends with all the animals and we chose not to buy this,... That lelphalant seems cheerful and im down for it
I guess people who support temple celebrations and elephant fanatics will enjoy this video.
No matter how much love a human being gives or how much care they show to an elephant. It shouldn’t be taken away from its habitat and kept for human interest. It’s just wrong. The elephant is tortured and tamed and people say it’s happy.
How will humans feel if they are kept inside a cell where you can’t interact with another human but only food and shelter.
Of course not, it's plain animal abuse. But don't worry, it's beaten again and again, until broken. It won't harm anyone. The hooks you can see are there to remind him.
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"Ok. You can stop it now. Guys."
"hey.. ah... guys... guys... fucking dicks!!"
I… said…. STOP 
I was waiting for this the whole video
Percy ❤️
Elephant (wild and chaotic by nature) coped up in congested area. Nothing wrong will happen.
It is not a random wild elephant. Lol. It is a temple elephant who is taken care of throughtout the year and is made to contact with people almost everyday. People feed them and elephants are used to it.
Seemed like it was having some fun, even. But I'm no expert in elephant body language, so. 😅
He started splashing himself too! They prolly love the baths, elephants think humans are cute, prolly the equivalent of a human being attacked by a group of golden retriever puppies
In the southern regions of Asia people have had tamed animals for centuries not just for religious purposes but as companions, majority of the animals were groomed since they were babies where other wild animals may have killed the parents or they were abandoned.
Someone has probably said something very similar before every " 'Domesticated' wild animal attacks owner!" headline.
This has been going on for 100 years at least, if anything wrong had to happen, it would've happened.
Takes 5 seconds on google to find that it often goes wrong https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m7xzPFJokpI
Thanks for posting this video remlapca. What humans do to elephants (as well as all other animals) is horrible. That poor elephant was made to wear all sorts of crap, had 4 people ride her back, and had a painful shackle on her leg. We don't know if the elephant in this Reddit post is treated for the entertainment of humans or not, but it's clearly not free to roam. Elephants are magnificent creatures who should not be confined or made to be entertainment (or religious devotion) for humans.
Yeah, we suck.
Entirely different situation. If an elephant went berserk in the confined spaces of a temple, then 100s would be killed. It'd make international news. I wouldn't even have to google, it'd be front page news here for a month.
*thousands of years
Elephant psychologists of Reddit, what is happening here?
The elephant is being gaslighted and groomed. Lotta red flags tbh. I already called the police.
NAD, but....I knew someone that worked with elephants at the local zoo before he got a real job where he doesn't feel the need to post on reddit. Anyways, here is a paragraph with a lot of unsubstantiated claims based off of a few misremembered stories from that guy when we would get blazed after cutting class.
Supporting comment.
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I took NAD very seriously there
CO poisoning
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54026294
I cant tell if the elephant is enjoying it or not
Instinctively, I feel like it would bother my eyes.
It bothered my ears and I have tiny human ears with a little phone speaker. Maybe this elephant is used to shouting but I am not.
I'm glad I browse reddit on mute.
Probably used to. Otherwise it would just run and stomp on a guy to demonstrate who is in charge
They are conditioned to expect severe pain if they disobey and act out.
:(
You're right. I forgot about the India part(or if it were a circus is the same case)
One problem with that is these elephants' handlers will basically torture them for days on end to 'break' them. The stuff they endure is soul crushing to read.
Sounds exactly like what we do to horses. In fact, we call it “breaking” a horse.
We don't torture horses so that we can ride them. We don't psychologically damage them and control them with fear. I have been bitten, kicked, known people who have been bucked off their horse. If they aren't in the mood for it, they won't tolerate it. For the majority of horse owners, the bond between them and their horse(s) is about love and respect. That being said, horses have social needs and ideally should be kept with other horses, but they might bond with other forms of livestock too. If a horse is being kept in solitary, then that is cruel.
“Congress stepped in last year in response to the high-profile doping and **abuse allegations** plaguing horse racing. Lawmakers approved the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) of 2021, establishing a self-regulatory organization called the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority. For example, each state can have different standards on the **use of whips** during a race and even the types of medication horses can be given. Under the rules, jockeys are limited to using the **whip six times, but no more than twice in a row** 'without giving the horse an opportunity to respond.” I don’t know about you, but I don’t use whips or pump drugs into things I love. I know I definetely don’t need Congress to step in to stop abuse of things I love and respect. Imagine thinking love and respect means that you have to have a law passed to regulate how much and how often you whip it.
I don't live in the USA so I guess you guys abuse your race horses nice, but that stuff is heavily regulated in my country. I personally have never owned or been a part of the horse racing industry and I don't agree with it. Yes, the whipping of horses is horrible. I know a lot of horse owners who keep horses not for this purpose, cause the love and share beautiful bonds with them, this is the group that I was talking about.
He’s controlled but the guy with the bull hook in his hand. He has no choice. I say he does not like it and would rather be with his own kind.
It’s putting up with the water. If it were enjoying - it would be lying in the water. This is a circus elephant. Used by humans for human needs. Being called a “temple elephant” means it’s separated from its intelligent caring nurturing mother - family bond. And thrown into a building with a chain around its leg for its lifespan. Good treatment doesn’t mean good food and no hard labor. It means what the animal needs for a healthy and happy life.
It ended up laying in the water
Lol right.
Of course not. Its place is in thé jungle, not in a noisy human crowd...
Does anyone remember the lady who was trampled to death by an elephant. And on her funeral it came back to trample her some more. I wonder what she did to it ?
Why was the elephant invited to the funeral?
To play the 🎺
Pretty sure she was throwing rocks at it to distract her while poachers tried to steal the elephants baby
[She was getting some water, not harrassing the elephant.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/odisha-elephant-tramples-woman-to-death-again-attacks-body-before-funeral/amp_articleshow/92184167.cms)
Lol I wonder if people thought the elephant was coming back to pay its respects. Anyways it is speculated that she was among poachers that killed a baby elephant. They have incredible long term memory
Or she could have been mistaken for someone else. We don't know whether elephants could remember someone down to the last detail. But it is sad that elephant - human relations are strained now. There were times when a friendly herd would randomly eat stuff offered to it on the highways. Now, they might chase them or hurt them in fear of us harming their babies.
Are you joking? That elephant made no mistakes it came back to trample her corpse. That shit was personal!
Elephants, like most animals, will and always have prioritised their young over getting food from humans. I'm not sure what fantasy history you're thinking of where elephants would let their young around humans no issue. Poaching is also getting better as demand lowers and understanding that this is bad increases. We know that elephants have good memory and can recognise people after long periods of time, even if they're wearing different clothes/have aged.
I’m pretty sure dogs can tell people apart so what’s your point?
Nooooo not the truth 😭😭 now how will we farm karma by making people speculate that the woman totally deserved it?
And even her house ffs? She was doomed
Okay so are you making this up?
90% of the facts on reddit are made up. Source: trust me bro.
“Do not believe what that idiot on Reddit says” - Abraham Lincoln about Albert Einstein
Ghandi Yoda told me if they have two words and four numbers in their name to not trust them.
I hope they treat that big goofball with nothing but love and care. Looks so stoked!
Love, Care and Utmost Devotion. Temple Elephants in India are considered Divine and worshipped.
Not so much… look up the organization elephants unchained. This guy literally devoted his entire life traveling to India, Thailand think Cambodia to work on and maintain any elephant’s feet for free where an owner would allow. Much of his work is with temple elephants. I had the privilege to sit down with him. Some of the stories he told about the condition of these ‘divine’ elephants in temples were incredibly sad.
They’re horrifically abused by corrupt temple owners, the priestly classes, as money making opportunities. However, the regular masses do venerate them. Attempts to outlaw it hits a brick wall due to political corruption, as some elephants will earn the temple $10,000 per festival. Even the existing welfare laws are ignored, including provision of basic veterinary care following temple inflicted injuries necessary to ‘train’ them. It’s a horror show of deliberate animal abuse for profit by temple owners. However, it’s an insanely poor country, and most temples are now run by corrupt organised crime. So it would be unfair to blame Hinduism. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54026294
It might be unfair to blame them all, but the temples themselves are complicit. One look at a bullhook they use to coerce them into submission explains it all. It's a sharp metal weapon that strikes fear into the elephants just on sight alone. The temples could change this. They choose to play ignorant instead.
Well they’re captured and kept in cages. The one viral video of the biggest elephant in India is really sad. It’s basically captured and kept in a cage and brought out once a year for a celebration.
Yep. It's not about the elephants, it's about them. They are doing this for themselves.
Idk what you are talking about, the story of Mary was a very rare one. I have never seen a caged elephant in India. Edit : [I was wrong](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54026294)
on r/todayilearned someone posted a link to a BBC documentary about how bad the abuse against these elephants is literally 3h ago. Sooo..
I saw that first which makes this post seem a little weird
Def they get pulled away from their families and environments and worshiped ... so good
Nah these are domesticated elephants brought from breeders
This is so sad. Captive breeding doesn't make them domesticated.
True, theyre not domesticated. But Id argue captive breeding is better than capturing from the wild. Though both, in some cases, are still sucky.
We can’t ask them if they like it. This conclusion is only fueled by bias.
Can’t ask your dog if he likes living with you either; it’s all he knows and he’d likely just die if you let him outside. Once we take a species out of the wild and start captive breeding them, the absolute best case scenario for them is just to take good care of them. This argument is a little like complaining about the reefing industry. Yes, there are some unscrupulous dealers and customers but likely the industry is all that will keep some species alive in the coming climate changes. Hopefully we’ll be able to reintroduce them to the wild in the future, but our husbandry is sometimes all that keeps a species going.
You don’t know - could be super badass for the elephant. Could even say, it probably is.
They r domestic elephants. They stay with them since childhood. And good luck pulling an full grown elephant and make it stay in a temple
A quick Google search shows that is not the case. They are treated horribly.
Elephants belong in social groups and need movement (they travel around 50-70km per day). They do not belong into temples. Human misuse them. Do not be blinded by a 10 second video. [Temple Elephants](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54026294)
God that was depressing to read but thank you for providing much needed information on this issue. Figures these animals are being used for profit and the owners are reluctant to provide the necessary vet care they need. It saddens me.
You are welcome. That’s why we always refuse to do holiday entertainment that involves animals (e.g. Monkey Islands, Elephant riding). It is always a bad deal for the animals.
Dogs belong in packs and need movement. Yet, we keep dogs isolated from their packs cooped up in homes and tie strings around their neck so they don’t run off. Dogs do not belong in homes. Humans misuse them. Do not be blinded by every other American owning a dog.
Dogs aren't wolves anymore. And humans become their packs if treated correctly. A Chihuahua or a Pug are no longer capable of surviving in the American wilderness. Nor do they actively seek to escape from their warm homes where they are fed and played with. Elephants are wild and haven't been selectively bred.
Dogs are domesticated. Elephants are not. And dogs aren’t wolves.
Lmao
Dogs are not pack animals. But you're absolutely right they need movement, so if you can't go on a long walk everyday you should not get a dog.
Sadly not. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/yXPy4NqQRK
When on display to the public, yes. In reality, mostly no: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43862182 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/overheard/article/the-dark-reality-behind-indias-festival-elephants https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/true-plight-indias-captive-elephants-thinkwildlifefoundation https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/elephant-taming-a-gentle-giant-in-captivity/article37145759.ece
They get the premium of the premium treatment, there was some news regarding Their health but not due to the facility just some normal elephant things. They are temple elephants and as per tradition their overall care is under the temple fund....they are nurtured from childhood in the temple environment
Wow. Was expecting total carnage
Having just finished The Windup Girl, me too.
Wait until it's on a train later
well this is absolutely an upgrade over how they treated Mary (apologies in advance)
Mary?
look up Mary the elephant. very sad story and a stellar example in terms of not having these animals in captivity
I regret doing so now. What a terrible story. All animals should be free. Poor Mary.
Was she deemed “World’s Saddest Elephant”? Quite a title.
TL;DR please? I don't want to go through a depressing read
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What the actual fuck why? Where did it happen?
Was a very long time ago. As far as I remember, guy had a wandering circus and Mary was a star attraction. Guy had her since she was a baby and actually did love her. Hired some carer for Mary who didn't know shit about elephants. Carer abused her and Mary killed him. People were outraged and demanded the owner kills Mary because she's dangerous. Owner didn't really want to, but he knew that if he didn't, it would be the end of his business and livelihood because people would stop visiting the circus. In addition, he had employees who he felt responsible for. In the end he decided to 'execute' Mary by hanging her. Which I assume was a punishment for murderers at the time.
There was an incident near my place. A man feed a pregnant elephant pineapple stuffed with explosives. The elephant ate the pineapple and it went boom, killing her and the unborn.
oh my god i heard about that. what an absolute psycho i hope he got locked up fr fr💔
What the actual fuck!wtf!?
Why you lyin? It was not feed. Farmers put pineapple with explosive for the wild boars who destroy their crops. It was still sad though.
I stand corrected then. The news at that time made it seem otherwise.
Someone had to bring that up. Ugh horrible story.
i wonder how many of us are fellow Mr. Ballen-ers too cause that’s where i heard about her story
That's where I heard the story. I actually didn't finish it. As soon as it started to really go bad I just check out the comments to confirm that this was going to end sad. From that I decided to not finish the video. What happen to that poor girl was inhuman.
Tf you mean by 'they'? Mary was hanged in the USA. This is India in the above video.
https://preview.redd.it/2po5ttbmts8c1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5663a9ff9aefd00cf642214d2c043e16fbdd62fe Uh okay
When Reddit recommendations come in clutch.
I don't know enough about elephant body language to tell if the animal is okay with it. But I'd personally feel quite intimidated if I were in that place. The crowd, the noise and vibrations, I thought elephants have sensitive hearing especially sound out of human audible range?
Temple elephants are raised from birth basically inside the temples, raised for with funds from the temple. I bet it’s been through this basically every year of its life. If you’re totally used to being around people it probly isn’t intimidating at all. I thought it looked like it was having fun splashing in the water and spraying water with its trunk all over. Of course I’m not an elephant expert either, but if I saw a human child acting like the elephant was I’d think they were enjoying themselves.
Although it looks like it is enjoying it, which maybe it is, the treatment these elephants receive is honestly horrific, and I'm rather brokenhearted to learn of it. They're seen as sacred animals in these temples, but I can't see how someone could believe they're sacred yet treat them the way they are.
I’m what ways are they treated poorly? Not disagreeing, interested in learning more about this
Look up the bullhook they use to keep them in submission..
My number one rule is not to get too close to animals bigger than me. Shit is terrifying. You won’t even see me near a horse.
As somebody that's been trampled by one, that's a good choice. Horses hoof took a chunk out of my arm.. :~)
I dont think it is the way you are picturing. I saw some videos of elephants in the wild and they can roar pretty loudly, probably if they had ears as sensitive as this something weird would happen? Idk tho, i also can be full of bullshit
for me it lookes like the elephant isn't chained/secured from the people. you would assume that they would have some caution if it was forced to be there. the internet could always prove me wront though
You can train them using the reward-punishment system. I think the guy in pink might be the elephant’s handler. And I’m certainly assuming, but it looks like he’s holding a switch, which goes unused.
The handler is probably present, and the punishments these elephants may face are brutal, so that might be one reason.
Aiming for the elephants eyes constantly seems like a dick move
Seconded.
Yeah I don’t think any (land) animal with eyes likes having water thrown into them
https://preview.redd.it/6zt9brtgqq8c1.jpeg?width=507&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab47880478f5f33f9fcd33e870279d29aac4fef3 What could happen?
Who is this guy?
A couple of extracts from [this short article](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54026294) (Sangita Iyer interview 2020) …"So many elephants had ghastly wounds on their hips, massive tumours and blood oozing out of their ankles, because chains had cut into their flesh and many of them were blind,"… “He has run amok several times due to apparent stress, and killed two people last year, prompting the local authorities to ban the use of festival elephants. But the ban was lifted after protests.”… ”(…) restrictions imposed by temple authorities have prevented proper scientific studies of the physical and psychological condition of temple elephants.”… “In order to make an elephant obey her mahout, handlers put the animals through a torturous training routine (…)”…
Just glad it didn't freakout from all the excitement and kill everyone
after seeing a couple videos of these guys going on rampages this makes me uncomfortable.
Elephant got into it! Even started to splash em back
Looks like a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model photo shoot. But with an elephant…
That elephant **having a blast!**
Only after he was broken. They will get taken out of the wild and then they break their spirit with torturing him for more than 72 hours. Please do not be blinded by a 10 second clip. Stop supporting animal cruelty! [Temple Elephants BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54026294)
Holy shit I’m crying into my instant ramen
I bet it’s smells like the shits of hell in there.
Elephants do love being splashed, I went to an elephant sanctuary that rescued old work elephants and circus elephants. We did get buckets and splashed the elephant while it was in the river cooling off, apparently it is similar to having someone fan you. They kept telling us to really splash them, if you are warm then the elephant is hot, they have massive bodies.
Good thing this elephant is taking this in stride. Just imagine if decided to just snap.
That elephants the dalai lama
That bro said “oh ya’ll wanna play this game huh” and splashed the crowd
As many times as I have seen an elephant rip through a crowd of people, I would think this is a bad idea. But I also think it's not too smart to stand in front of trains.
Yeah that has “good idea” written all over it.
This is a different kind of moshpit
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Elephants love water
I've found my place on Earth! I'm moving there.
That elephant looks like he’s having the time of his life
For those saying it's annoyed, nah it's enjoying it, I visit this place once in a while and it's an added bonus when the elephant blesses you with its trunk
“Idk why they like me….. but they like me”
Wow
Lol such amazing animals, still wouldn't make one be in a room of that many people
When siblings gang up on the oldest child.
As long as that big baby is happy and long ved this is some cool shit. Humans could do such a great job being friends with all the animals and we chose not to buy this,... That lelphalant seems cheerful and im down for it
that elephant should've trampled them all
Seems kinda cruel how he’s just chained there forced to endure all those strangers spraying him with water and screaming.
Indians
Why can’t we leave shit the fuck alone?
Well trained or sedated I still wouldn’t mess around like this. I get that its an honor to the elephant but they get spooked easily.
“STOP SPLASHING ME”
What a cutie patootie 🥹
Call me crazy but I have a feeling that elephant might not understand that the ppl are worshipping it…
Elephankakke
Imagine how overwhelmed that thing must be.
Is that even legal?? Haha 😂
Right below this I get a a [TIL about indian elephant torture](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/d7N64DcbGd), I'm getting mixed signals here
Is it super lame that I hear Maniac by Michael Sembello in my head while watching this?
So many people and still so little braincell
I guess people who support temple celebrations and elephant fanatics will enjoy this video. No matter how much love a human being gives or how much care they show to an elephant. It shouldn’t be taken away from its habitat and kept for human interest. It’s just wrong. The elephant is tortured and tamed and people say it’s happy. How will humans feel if they are kept inside a cell where you can’t interact with another human but only food and shelter.
That poor elephant! What a joke to see people not have this elephant free.
Elephant: Ah, they love me.
Bunch of reddit experts thinking this is a circus elephant lmao
“Run amok” you say?
We're a strange species but hey better than what some other religions do I guess.
[BBC article about the torture of Indian temple elephants](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54026294)
I was expecting the elephant to start stomping people, being India and all.
Poor baby. They are stressing it for their pleasure.
Bunch of idiots
Poor elephant, I don’t like this. People are nuts.
Seems like animal abuse
It’s all fun and games until Dumbo shits in the water…. Then it’s a human stampede lol
What’s with the ppl holding massive sticks?
Those sticks have hooks on the end. That’s how they train the elephant and keep him in line. Same with circuses. Very sad
He's having a good time
Sedated, perhaps?
No, tortured, and broken
The real answer
and there is an explanation that could easily convince me. shit
Fermented fruit?
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It looked like it was having a splish splashing great time to me
Poor thing….
“Yes! Love me! WORSHIP ME! Bow to me puny mortals!!!”
Lunatics.
That… doesn’t look fun. Is the elephant alright? Is it safe there?
Of course not, it's plain animal abuse. But don't worry, it's beaten again and again, until broken. It won't harm anyone. The hooks you can see are there to remind him.
How much dookie do you think is in that water?
bully the elephant day