Elephant Painting

Elephant Painting at the Mae Sa Elephant Camp, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• Elephant
• Painting
• Chiang
• Mai
• Thailand
• Mae
• Sa

[MauryMcCoy]

I'm not sure people realize this, but when a new baby elephant is born, the tribe selects a young (teenage) mahout to train and live with that elephant for the rest of its life. One mahout perelephant. These elephants are lifelong friends and they do EVERYTHING together. There is an incredible amount of respect for the elephants.

Saying this is cruel is the equivalent of saying that teaching your dog to sit is cruel. The relationship between mahout and elephant is extremely close.

[MauryMcCoy]

As the person who took this video, I can tell you that these particular elephants were treated extremely well and were definitely enjoying themselves. People who are critical should really learn about the culture and the mahouts who train these animals before making judgments about things they don't know understand.

[Candyann22]

Thai elephants are tamed in a ceremony called the Phajaan, they are deprived of food, water &sleep and are poked and proded with bamboo sticks with nails imbedded in the end, knives and are also shot with stones and other projectiles. This is meant to break the spirit of the elephant. After Phajaan the elephants endure more horrifying torture when they are trained at knifepoint to paint pictures, play musical instruments or are forced to stand on their head for the benefit of elephant shows.

[journeyman47]

There are many reasons why this is wrong and shouldn't be supported. The main reason is because Asian elephant babies are being torn from their mothers and broken to be docile enough to make the silly paintings. The "breaking" ritual (phaajaan) is a horrible week-long session of torture that's so bad many elephants don't even survive. Not to mention the cruelty of separating babies from mothers and their aunties.

Lek Chailert of the Elephant Sanctuary asks you not to support this abuse. Thanks.

[SavetheAsianElephant]

Yeah the mahout and elephant have a lifelong friendship - in an ideal world. What tends to happen is that the majority of elephants are owned by rich families and mahouts are hired by them to tend to the elephants. The problem is elephants are a commodity more often than not in Thailand and as a result when problems arise elephants are sold on. In one lifetime an elephant may have as many as 20 different owners. They're on the CITES endangered list but are classed as farm animals in Thailand.

[flycentro123]

gay elephants ????

[monnipulli]

faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake ar-tards lol <@:-)

[xcmet]

thats ah stupid elephant!

[LinzahAnimeFreak]

if i were the elephant ied loovee painting <3