The Elephant Lady

[THFbella]

I would love to add Italian subtitles to this video - there is very little information available in Italy, and Italians love visiting Thailand, so it would be very useful. Please let me know if I can do that for you. :-) I will be visiting Lek's sanctuary next month and look forward to it.

[Frechts]

I am crying now .. people are such horrible beings.

[marialegdanova]

You people are amazing!!! Thanks to you, we can see the difference in our unfair world. Love u 

[armandoah]

Es una pena que se maltrate a los elefantes de esta manera, solo para divertir a las personas, esto debe detenerse...

[airsolaja]

thanks for this video...i was watching videos of elephants painting, but now I see that this fun for turists is influencing so much pain to these great animals!

[antigone21]

are there more videos like this?! this needs to get around more !

[HenryDavidT]

It's very difficult to watch people tie up elephants like this & repeatedly torture & beat them up until they have no more will to resist. Human beings are, indeed, one of the most violent & cruelest forms of species ever evolve on earth. Today, there's no more than a couple hundred in the wild in Thailand, & likely no more than a few dozen in Laos --- the country once formally known as "the land of one million elephants" because it had mighty herds of elephants...

[tituswillow]

@HenryDavidT I totally agree with you...thank you for commenting

[helljason]

elephants are mighty animals... so much like human...

humans are also mighty... so much like animals...

[MeshugenahScientist]

"You cannot separate the just from the unjust and the good from the wicked;

For they stand together before the face of the sun even as the black thread and the

white are woven together.

And when the black thread breaks, the weaver shall look into the whole cloth, and

he shall examine the loom also."

--by "The Prophet", by Kahlil Gibran

[MeshugenahScientist]

Once there was the African slave trade.

*

Would this be the Elephant slave trade?

[Eswaves]

i really glad i saw this, i would have never guessed that elephants in thoes painting videos and things are really being treated that way, really gives the circus a whole other perspective as well. thank you

[xlongyujax]

Hurts to see any animals that are abused.

I never knew how aboused these animals were till recently.

Thank got theres people like you in this world.

[deenap1]

God Bless Lek . The Elephant Nature Park she founded is wonderful , I was there, a sanctuary she rescues abused elephants to. The Thai Govt must OUTLAW the Pajaan. Pajaan is a word for the process ritual ( part of this film ) the Thai people use on baby elephants seperated by force from their mother permanantly & then physically emotionally mentally break them & their spirit for 2 weeks so to listen to commands, forced into back breaking work, a life of cruelty. Love to Lek.

[Jenasistv]

Bless that Elephant (6.18) stretching for that Banana....i was like "someone give that guy one!" and then he got it.

[JudiG]

Thank you for posting this.

[jsnukem]

i 'm sorry but i cannot understand most of this video (because of their accents). is she saying that the famous videos we see of elephants painting, are because they are being tortured into it?

[lovermouse]

Jsnukem: Yes, that's exactly what they're saying!

No elephant willingly lives a life to amuse or entertain humans.

[mishkaboo]

@lovermouse that's exactly what I thought when I first saw the elephant painting videos, I knew they had to have been abused, I mean "trained" to do that

[spiritualwellness]

beautiful work as always brother.

[Skipa]

Beautiful! Thanks Tim!