Elephant in India goes berzerk at religious festival 1 dead many injured

[El Sidd]

it's time that they ban using innocent animals for human egoistic bullshit.

Deep respectful words....

But its also a big issue in lanka and not hidden.

 

[NoOne'sBoy]

Deep respectful words....

But its also a big issue in lanka and not hidden.

yes. if they ban it, buddhists start thumping their chest about discriminating them, if you ban animal sacrifice, hindus and muslims start screaming. IMO any form of ritualistic murder and harm towards animals should be banned but it's the unpopular opinion and politicians won't take action out of fear of losing votes.

 

[El Sidd]

yes. if they ban it, buddhists start thumping their chest about discriminating them, if you ban animal sacrifice, hindus and muslims start screaming. IMO any form of ritualistic murder and harm towards animals should be banned but it's the unpopular opinion and politicians won't take action out of fear of losing votes.

Vegans wont be able to survive a day in charge.

So think practical for once

 

[ranjeet]

The problem is elephants have a very complex social structure and culture too.

To successfully tame aka train the elephant you start early thus by separating it from the mother. An elephants biggest source of wisdom. Thats why its said no one can replace a mother.

Now these distressed animal lands itself with little knowledge nor means to know how to behave.

Basically its being naughty driven by hormones. Humans are fragile animals. Do the maths yourself

Great. Still I would trust people who are doing it for centuries than folks over people who are whinging about it just because someone is paying them.

 

[PakSword]

LOL Petty common in this part of world. Also elephant go crazy for a month in a year

this reminds me of Chinese soldier's kick...

@beijingwalker

 

[RPK]

this reminds me of Chinese soldier's kick...

@beijingwalker

Don't Show him he will eat it

 

[El Sidd]

Great. Still I would trust people who are doing it for centuries than folks over people who are whinging about it just because someone is paying them.

Who are they?

 

[KapitaanAli]

I admit that there are miscreants who go extreme with their training of elephants.
But things are changing fast.

I'll be the happiest if elephants are free in the wild. But I don't trust humans to let them be alive if we keep them all wild and of no use other than its body parts.

 

[TMA]

That have been domesticated for thousands of years, hardly a comparison.



Well I know captive is a very subjective term and the Kerala folk do look after them, however what they do is not natural and that does effect the psychology of the animal.

well give it a few more thousands years for the elephant...just imaging if man stopped with the horse and dog because of adverse outcomes...

 

[waz]

well give it a few more thousands years for the elephant...just imaging if man stopped with the horse and dog because of adverse outcomes...

How many elephants are left? That's why they shouldn't be doing anything like this.

 

[RPK]

How many elephants are left? That's why they shouldn't be doing anything like this.

Elephant Range: 110,000 km² approx
Country Ranking: 2nd of 13
Total Wild Elephants: 23,900 – 32,900 total
10,300 -17,400 (south)
2,400 – 2,700 (central)
10,300 – 11,300 (north-east)
900 – 1,500 (north-west)
Country Ranking: 1st of 13
Total Captive Population: 3,500
Country Ranking: 3rd

Domesticated Elephant is very less

Private owners:2,540
Temples:190
Forest departments:480
Zoos:80
Circuses:110

 

[El Sidd]

How many elephants are left? That's why they shouldn't be doing anything like this.

Population is not an issue right now for the elephants.

People eat them for meat in parts of the world.

The problem is the sheer normality abuse is towards animals and utterly inhuman human thirst to dominate nature.

 

[SecularNationalist]

Sirji it's an elephant. Not a god. Unless you want to trigger someone.

So that means ganesh is a different type of elephant which is considered god?

 

[TMA]

How many elephants are left? That's why they shouldn't be doing anything like this.

true...

 

[waz]

Population is not an issue right now for the elephants.

People eat them for meat in parts of the world.

The problem is the sheer normality abuse is towards animals and utterly inhuman human thirst to dominate nature.

Elephant numbers are plummeting.....

The worrying finding: Africa now has 352,271 savanna elephants left in 93 percent of the species’ range.

The aerial survey covered 18 African countries. In 15 of those, where information on previous populations existed, 144,000 elephants were lost to ivory poaching and habitat destruction in less than a decade.

The current yearly loss—overwhelmingly from poaching—is estimated at 8 percent. That’s about 27,000 elephants slaughtered year after year.


https://news.nationalgeographic.com...ts-population-decrease-great-elephant-census/