Elephant attacks people to death: abuse and safety hazards behind animal performances

He Yongjie, the team leader, was killed by an elephant to save tourists, which made people realize clearly once again that elephants are actually dangerous animals.

Let's review the whole story first:

On the afternoon of 2 1 local time, in a scenic spot in Pattaya, Thailand, the domesticated elephant suddenly lost control and rushed into the crowd, resulting in the death of 1 China tour guide and the injury of 2 tourists.

Earlier, some media reported that it was because some tourists from China took selfies with the elephant and pulled its tail, which made the elephant angry and then rushed into the crowd. The dead tour guide died trying to save the tourists.

However, the Thai police said: The cause of the incident is still under investigation.

According to the signed statement of a Chongqing tour group member, the elephant angrily rushed to the crowd, knocked down a Chongqing female member Lai, and launched a series of attacks.

When the tour guide He Yongjie saw it, he immediately rushed over and dragged her to a safe place, but was rolled up by the elephant's nose and fell heavily and was trampled to death.

There is no evidence that tourists pull the elephant's tail.

But what is certain is that He Yongjie really died to save Ms. Lai, a member of the tour group.

Ms lai is still in the intensive care unit of the hospital.

Her husband said: "I live in the intensive care unit, with five broken ribs and internal bleeding." I went to ask my wife, and she said that He Yongjie really pulled her or something. My wife can't move anymore. If he (He Yongjie) touched her, the elephant wouldn't attack my wife. The elephant went after He Yongjie. "

Is it a natural disaster or a man-made disaster for elephants to hurt people?

Is it accidental or inevitable?

Let's learn about this industry: animal performances.

In the tourist season, many scenic spots will hold various forms of animal entertainment performances, such as monkey riding in the circus, taking pictures of animals in the zoo, sea lion performances in the sea world and so on.

However, few people realize that there is cruelty to animals behind these performances.

20 16 The Institute of Wildlife Conservation of Oxford University compared the results of experts' scientific investigation on wildlife tourist attractions with more than 50,000 travel comments on Cat Way Eagle, the world's largest travel website.

The final result shows that 80% of tourists give positive comments on the scenic spots where wildlife abuse exists.

These attractions include: riding elephants, taking photos with tigers, walking with lions, visiting bear paradise, watching monkeys dance and other recreational activities that seriously abuse animals.

Remember the killer whale-Tirikum?

Trapped in an aquarium for 34 years, with three lives.

The documentary "Black Whale" expounds the fate of Tirikum in detail, which is sympathetic and worth pondering.

In 20 10, at the end of a performance at Sea World in Orlando, Tirikum grabbed the ponytail of female animal trainer Bronscheo in full view and dragged her into the water to death, which shocked the world.

Prior to this, Tirikum had caused two deaths.

199 1 year, Tirikum killed a part-time coach who slipped and fell into the performance pool in Pacific Park, Canada.

1999, after SeaWorld closed at night, a man evaded the security guard and sneaked into the garden. The next day, he was found dead, naked and his clothes were wrapped around Tirikum. Tirikum must have thought that man was a toy, and that man had scratches on him.

The documentary "Black Whale" reveals the cruel truth behind the ocean entertainment circle by interviewing many coaches and experts, and points out that Tirikum's murder is inevitable.

Because it hates humans.

Sea World not only trapped him in a small swimming pool and forced him to perform, but also artificially extracted Tirikum's sperm to isolate him from other killer whales.

Brown Scheo, an animal trainer who was killed by Tirikum, thinks that she "loves" killer whales: they cooperate perfectly in the performance, they get along day and night, and she will celebrate Tirikum's birthday.

But what she gave was not what the killer whales wanted.

The self-righteous care and love of human beings bring physical and mental abuse to these animals.

Black whales kill people and elephants go crazy, all of which are revenge for human beings. Perhaps, it was not revenge, but a catharsis when they were physically and mentally tortured.

You know, riding behind an elephant?

How are elephants trained?

In order to make the elephant obedient, the elephant trainer will adopt a traditional elephant training method called "Pajan".

"Pajaan" means "breaking and separating". On the one hand, it is the separation from family and the same kind, on the other hand, it is the separation of spirit and flesh.

Elephants are social animals. Females will live in the herd forever and stay with their mothers, while males will leave the herd at the age of 10 to 17. In order to be tamed, the baby elephant was taken away by the elephant trainer at a very young age and forced to be separated from the mother elephant. They are kept in a very small cage and can only stand and cannot move freely.

Then, they will continue to stab it with sharp spears and give them little food and water.

After a long period of physical and mental torture, the elephant trainer will start feeding it food, ride on its back and train it to do specified movements.

The elephant trainer holds a tip stick in his hand. This sharp tool, called "ox hook", is specially made for training elephants. One end of this tool can pierce the elephant's skin and can also be used to beat the elephant, which will bring great pain to the elephant.

In addition to beating with the "ox hook" tool, the more cruel elephant trainer also nailed nails on the elephant's feet.

After the nail is taken out, the wound will heal. When the elephant is disobedient, as long as he pokes the wound hard, the elephant will listen.

It's not cute as you see, nor docile as you think.

They just gave in to the sticks of human beings and the strong.

Not only animals should be sympathized, but also the safety of tourists should be protected.

When you come into contact with lovely animals, whether elephants or lions and tigers, they all look docile under the guidance of animal trainers, but have you ever thought about what you are in the eyes of these animals?

Even if you don't hurt them, they will list you as an enemy. Because their direct abuser is a human like you.

When you see the entertainment of riding an elephant in a tourist attraction, you naturally don't think that this is actually a risky thing:

20 15, Chiang Mai, an elephant used by tourists suddenly went crazy and stabbed an animal trainer to death with ivory. At that time, it was carrying three tourists from China.

In the same year, in eastern Thailand, an elephant trampled a 28-year-old male tourist on the beach and seriously injured his companion.

In 20 16, a 36-year-old Englishman was trampled to death by an elephant on Koh Samui.

The latest tragedy happened in Chiang Mai, a city in northern Thailand. According to the reference news network 65438+February 1 1, a star elephant in our city trampled its owner to death.

At the time of the incident, the owner of the elephant had just untied the rope for it. Its animal trainer rides on an elephant weighing about 5 tons. Before turning around, it took a few steps and attacked the 54-year-old elephant owner standing on the ground. ......

In recent years, there have been incidents of elephant wounding in Thailand almost every year, and this probability is not small.

If people and animals can't live in harmony, they will certainly hurt each other.

In the face of pure natural laws, human beings are extremely fragile, attacked by elephants, and the chances of survival are too small.

Compared with the human injury to elephants, the number of people injured by elephants is much less.

Human abuse makes wild animals angry. When anger broke out, people like He Yongjie were really innocent.

The less abuse, the less possibility of tragedy.

May He Yongjie rest in peace.

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