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"A trained elephant is always a maltreated elephant."

This former volunteer at an Elephant Rescue Center in Thailand wants to raise awarness about the abominable living conditions of domesticated elephants.

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Transcript
00:00I don't understand why we continue to domesticate wild elephants by violence
00:05while hiding the reality to tourists and spectators
00:08and making them believe that they are well treated.
00:30Why are elephants so dangerous?
00:35Tourists, when they see elephants going on tours
00:38or strolling on their backs
00:40or seeing them do things that seem incredible or unusual
00:43they just feel like they are facing animals that are extremely intelligent
00:47and that demonstrate their intelligence in these tours or in these walks.
00:52Except that the problem is that, indeed, elephants are very intelligent animals
00:57but they are mostly extremely wild and very dangerous animals.
01:00An elephant does not obey, it submits.
01:03In fact, to train an elephant, we use what is called training by annihilation.
01:09In practice, how does it work?
01:11Often trainers use a pick, which they call the bull hook
01:15and in fact they hit the animal repeatedly on sensitive areas for days
01:20an animal that is both hungry, thirsty and locked up
01:24and then the elephant will do everything, will obey in any order
01:28so that these injuries he received during the training
01:32are not reactivated by new blows on these same sensitive areas.
01:36Generally, these are areas where the skin is thinner
01:38because the elephant's skin is very thick
01:40which is located behind the ears, behind the knees
01:44but these are also areas that tourists do not usually see
01:47and therefore that allow to camouflage the injuries.
01:50It's complicated to recognize an elephant that is tortured
01:53but there are several, in fact it is a beam of clues
01:56that can make it possible to see that a situation is problematic
01:59and that the elephant is very likely to be tortured.
02:01Already, elephants can have frenetic movements when they are unhappy
02:06it's called stereotypes.
02:08We often see the elephant swing.
02:10We might think he's dancing.
02:12In fact, he does not dance at all.
02:14It's just that he is extremely overworked, extremely stressed.
02:17He is in acute pain and in fact he makes these movements to lighten up a little bit.
02:21Then we can often see traces of chains on the elephant's legs
02:26which show that he has been chained.
02:28An elephant that has been chained is necessarily an elephant that is abused.
02:31In general, you have to be wary of videos that present as unusual
02:37a behavior of a wild animal like an elephant with humans.
02:41Often, in most cases, this animal is an animal that has been tortured
02:47so that we can see this video.
02:51A trained elephant is always an abused elephant.
03:04Do not go to circuses with wild animals
03:07or in all places that employ them and perpetuate this industry.
03:10Be vigilant and especially talk about it around you
03:15because it is ignorance that allows this system to perpetuate.

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