Elephant Nature Park of Thailand
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- shamakern.com Elephants are sometimes mistreated in Thailand and elsewhere when they are trained to work for humans. As a result there are quite a few sick and injured elephants who are still very expensive to feed and maintain. One woman, Lek Chailert from northern Thailand's Chiang Mai province, opened a sanctuary where she provides a home for distressed elephants, elephantnaturep....
This video comes from a visit to Elephant Nature Park where I recorded how the rescued animals can now live in freedom and dignity. This animal sanctuary provides opportunities for volunteers to embark on a real Thailand adventure by working directly with the elephants.
This is one place which you will never forget after your Thailand travel. For many volunteers this is the adventure of a life time. It is a vacation with purpose and the opportunity to learn first hand how those magnificent animals live.
If you are not planning on a Thailand vacation, then this video will show you one of many fascinating aspects of this country.
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Awww total cuteness. Was there ever a more precious animal than a baby ellie! They just make you smile :))))))
Baby ellies, baby hippos, baby rhinos, calves, foals, baby any mammal, all toooo cute!
🐘 They are remarkable. Not just beautiful like other babies. They have the highest IQ level. They are emotionally aware. The only land animal that recognizes themselves in a mirror or reflection besides chimpanzees and humans. Unfortunately, their intelligence is why they are abused all over Asia . They are useful. 😢
@@womanofsubstance8735but cute and intelligent with a sparkling personality is a baby elephant 🐘 trait!! They are so smart.
I love Elephant so much May God bless these beautiful innocent animals 🐘❤️🙏
It is beautiful video of elephants. Thank you.
thanks for sharing your video and love your narration
WoW!! Baby elephant so cute.
I want to thank all those commenters who see this video for what it is - a tribute to a wonderful elephant rescue project.
And I feel compelled to respond to some of the negative comments to this video. First of all, THIS IS Elephant Nature Park. I spoke with founder Lek Chailert and even interviewed her on video. She personally showed me around the place. This was in 2013.
Second, all those comments about how terrible it is that a Mahout is sitting on the elephant - do you really think that a well-cared for elephant minds if the Mahout plays with him in the water? These rescued elephants are loved and treated very well. All these insinuations that cruel mahouts with bull hooks mistreat the elephants there in any way are just ridiculous.
Some people even 'reported' this video to ENP, but 'never got a response'. Of course ENP wouldn't want to respond to baseless and fanatical comments by people who totally fail to see the beauty and the gentle spirit of this video. Instead they make a huge issue out of a 'loser' mahout who is lovingly playing with their animal-friend in the water. Do you really think that the elephant felt abused by that? What's wrong with playing with an animal? You play with your dogs and cats too, and they enjoy it.
Regarding the stick which 'could have been' a 'despicable bull hook', but there is no hook visible at all - why do you have to make up such stories? Why not see the beauty and the love and the care which the elephants are enjoying at ENP?
Will you go on a hateful rant about all the people who ride horses or camels or yaks as well? And what about that steak that you eat which comes from a cow that was killed for your meal? You have no problem with that. But if a mahout is sitting on his elephant, then you get all bent out of shape. Why such a double standard?
Lek Chailert has devoted her life to rescuing elephants and has given them a new life at ENP. No elephants were ever mistreated there, and they are a hundred times better off at ENP than where they had been rescued from.
If you get satisfaction from making a huge issue out of a mahout playing with an elephant in the water, and making up stories about bull hook mistreatment, then I feel sorry for you.
I agree to your note. If a Mahout can't ride or sit on an elephant, then I dont know who else can. A Mahouts job is not just to feed and be with the elephant. Playing with the animal and being friendly is only an attempt to try and understand them better and to be able to know what to expect or predict their behavior. Hats off to ENP for taking care of these animals that are majestic and cute at the same time. This is a lot of hard work for them to maintain and keep the animals, feed them tons of food every single day. I do not see any cruelty in this video.
About time some of these commenters are called out about seeing these imaginary bullhooks and mahouts riding or sitting while ellies are bathing, I say better the mahout than the many tourist sitting in metal frames atop of these ellies. Kudos to you and thankyou for the vid.
wow narration made this video ever better, thanks for posting this.
It's 2024 now ❤ Lek Chailert rescues and has done a magnificent job with her team at Elephant Nature Park Chiang Mai. 🎉 please donate even if it's simply an Ellie cake! They create a cake shape feast made of Cucumber 🥒 Watermelons 🍉
Bananas 🍌
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Currently they rescued 13 yr old Namthip ❤
She arrived so thin and fearful im February. Her transformation is already extraordinary ❤
5:34 first bullhook I have seen at ENP. And first ridden elephant. Perhaps this elephant driver did not get the memo.
This is my first time back to this video in years. I never made accusations, I had questions that didn't get answers. Now I see this again, and there is a bullhook that people say they don't see here. In the old days, they did take bulls one by one, not in Musth, to the river for a swim, but they've had their own pool for some time now. As a sincere elephant-advocate and supporter of ENP, this footage is troubling. Of course, we understand this footage was from 2013, but it flies in the face of stated ENP policies from way, way back. In this video, the mahout looks at the camera at length as they come out of the river, as if displeased to be captured on video.
There are a few different kinds of bullhooks, one that looks like a squared hook on a handle of that length and thickness, one that is duel-hooked (short hooks) off a single stem on the end of a long handle of that length and thickness, and one that has a single metal tip on the end where the tip almost doesn't show. It's attached to the end of the handle much like a tip on a cane, except that it's a small sharp steel point, so not a literal "hook," it's designed to be less obvious. The third is what I perceive this to be. The elephant is Jungle Boy, aka Thong Suk, as Hope doesn't have tusks, and in 2013, there was no other bull with tusks there. I understand that it was vital to keep all elephants off the neighbors' property across the river, due to threats the neighbors made, and in those days ENP didn't own property across the river. They have said that Jungle Boy was never put through Crush, having arrived to ENP as a babe, and yet, here, we see him allowing a mahout to walk on him and ride his neck, and I wonder how it was that Jungle Boy allowed that. Like horses, elephants don't just magically let people ride them, even less so, bulls. It wasn't "play," it's how mahouts maintain control over elephants in the river.
I've been a staunch supporter of ENP for a long time, I have believed they did good work, but this footage shows concerning contradictions.
@@cacatr4495 Come to think of it, I’d need to see a “that was then, this is now” video or statement like another ellie site I subscribe to did. They explained they used to have riding (the elephants had been trained before they rescued them), but stopped it. They opened a nice lodge and started safaris in order to keep the herd. They could’ve kept the former trekking hidden, because there weren’t any vid’s or pics posted.
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Did you read all of my replies to Pascale on this page?
So you know, I pasted urls in my ENP Babes playlist description, so everyone can look things up for themselves.
You and I have previously discussed the pure-elephant nature of Wan Mai, that she only knows how to be an elephant, she knows nothing else. Let's assess the differences between a strong-minded ENP babe, who has never known inflicted pain or assault at the hands of man, and our next nearest example of one who has, Bunma, a teen/young adult elephant that knows what it is to be subjugated to man's commands by way of inflicted pain and everyday assault. Bunma, and other subjugated elephants forced to work 7 days a week, usually 12 hours a day, know that if they don't obey mahouts, they will suffer pain miserably, *very badly, so they know that obedience is demanded of them. Navann, Yindee, Dok Rak, Wan Mai, the strongest minds of the hopefully untouched that we can name at this point, know no such thing. They do Not know that obedience is expected of them, they know nothing of the threat that man has actively imposed on their kind, unless and until their mother or nanny conveys that to them. Even then, it's not firsthand experience, and they are mighty, with strong Wills, so hearing of it would likely make no difference to them. Faa Mai knows, only second-hand, not experientially: she has greeted every newcomer and hears of their suffering directly from them, responding with her most sober and sorrowful expressions. I'm sure she also heard about suffering from her mother, Dok Ngern and Faa Sai, her family herd members. They suffered badly, and Faa Sai doesn't "mince words," she is a strong communicator and doesn't hide her feelings. But the difference is this, Faa Mai has a soft temperament, and she is directly favored by Lek, and I have read that she is under special favor to be able to do whatever she wants to do, go anywhere she wants so long as she doesn't head towards harm, that her mahout must not hurt her. She isn't a strong temperament. What do bulls have in common with Wan Mai? strong minds, strong Wills, strong temperaments. Here's what I see happened with Hope and Jungle Boy, but it will help the reader if they first read my lengthy replies to Pascale on this page. They were busy being the young elephant bulls they knew to be, that is *all they knew to be, that is all they *could be, they knew nothing else. Along comes mahout that believes strongly in "elephant must fear man," who goes about acting that out for whatever reason. How would Hope and Jungle Boy have seen that behavior? As a bold-faced assault by a disrespectful flea of a creature. Elephants *know they are powerful and majestic: they push trees over, they spar with one another, they begin demonstrating this knowledge when they are small, pushing and charging. That's what elephants do, they know they are mighty, they can only be what they are. So when these strong minded elephants are assaulted, what do they do? They send the assaulter flying, *if the mahout is "lucky." Otherwise, they might send the mahout into next week or beyond. So that is what Hope did: he was 18 years old. That is plain to see on his database page, the url of which I posted in my ENP Babes playlist description. What did he know about "obedience," and the demands of man? If they sent him and Jungle Boy to "training" as some have said, and which is evidenced by the mahout riding JB in this video (Jungle Boy is a year younger than Hope), then they learned of the evil nature of man and that cooperation was demanded, but here's the difference: they were older when they were "trained" (meaning that their bull-elephant understandings were far better established in their minds than a little 2 year old bull) and they were not demanded of, with painful enforcement, every day, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week like Bunma, for *years. Bunma's subjugation was enforced *every *single day from the day she was first taken away from her mother, so she had approx. 14 years of enforcement imprinted on her mind that Hope and Jungle Boy didn't have. So when H and JB's mahouts demanded something of them, they said 'No,' and their mahouts tried to enforce, and that didn't work out. People need to Stop and Realize that one *cannot make demands on an established elephant mind and get their way, it doesn't work. (That's what Crush seeks to overcome.) H and JB "told" them it wasn't going to work, and it didn't. But what now do we see with Navann? His left nostril has been sliced open, healed that way so that his nostril will not re-heal to become normal. His nostril will be flapping in the breeze for the rest of his life. (YT video url of that is posted, to the minute-mark, in my ENP Babes playlist description.) What did Navann know about "obedience?" Nothing. He's a bull elephant, being exactly what he is; he has no ability to be anything else. What do knowledgeable folk reading this think Yindee is going to say to such demands? Any of them, namely Chang Yim (13yo), Navann (10 next month), Yindee (9), Dok Geaw (7), Dok Rak (6), Wan Mai (2) will convey "Get away from me, you puny flea!" and elephants enforce it. (Bulls San Mueang (10) and Gluay Hom (13) were never "free," so they might cooperate. Khun Dej (approx.12) is disabled, so though willful, his mahout might take it easy on him.) So when eles enforce their refusal, what will happen to them? . . Think about it . . *ALL they can be is what they are, and people need to understand that, but I fear they won't and don't by what they've evidenced. Captivity isn't Conservation, they cannot be domesticated, they can only be subjugated to dangerous results. We have rejoiced to see these young ones growing up naturally to be what they are and nobody's toy, but when they say 'No,' and their mahout says "YES!", what will happen? A power-struggle ensues, and who do you think will "win?" For that moment, the young ele wins, until he or she is sent away for "training" or worse. This is why captivity doesn't work. Hope and Jungle Boy have shown us this, we haven't seen videos of them in years (*plural, yearS).
Dame Sheldrick, of Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's orphan elephant project, who *actually did *rescue literally orphaned ele-calves in Kenya and hand-rear them for eventual return to the Wilds of their nearby "protected" national park, said that with elephants, you reap what you sow. They remember, and what you show them, they will return to you. The difference here is that they mainly work with calves, who when ready, choose when to return to the Wild, they don't try to keep them. Those who are disabled into their adulthood are continued to be treated with true respect. They have done this honorable work for about 50 years, and have literally rescued *hundreds of orphans. ~ African elephants have more intense temperaments, they are more powerful and more challenging to work with, but the principles hold true, of sowing and reaping.
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How are you doing? I'm sure you're grieved like I am. I've replied to you at all our threads a day and 2 ago, so you know. Please see my Babes playlist description for urls and realities, politely worded. Please see my replies to you here and to Pascale on this page.
@@cacatr4495 Yes, sorry. I’ve really been reeling, trying to process and make sense of these revelations. I’ll catch up in a few days.
Nice video
Super fun video
So cute baby
Giving it a thumbs down because of the guy was getting on the elephant and bothering him from his play time
If you actually listened you may then realise he was a bull could of been Hope Navaans sire, and because of there unpredictable nature they are kept apart from the females. Only ones that have some control of them are their own personal mahouts, although what a stick will achieve wouldn't be alot of help at all lol, use your heads.
@@katerinakemp5701
The bull was Jungle Boy aka Thong Suk: he was the only bull at ENP with tusks in 2013. Both Hope's and Jungle Boy's sires were at other camps, as they both came as calves, although Jungle Boy was born there under lease of his mother and sent back shortly after birth, then later purchased. Elephants do not allow anyone to ride them unless they've been "trained," and bulls even more so won't allow it. That wasn't a "stick," it was an inline bullhook, one of at least 3 different kinds of hooks there are. The fact that Jungle Boy allowed his mahout to ride him says all that needs to be said, if a person is willing to honestly look at the scene. In putting together my latest ENP Babes playlist, having watched a ton of videos to choose them, I saw other videos that show things that supposedly "don't go on at ENP." :(
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They don't belong there, they belong free in a natural environment.
They’re being rescued from poachers.
They were captive elephants that had been abused, not rescued from poachers. Some of them are too disabled to live in the Wild.
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I would love ❤ to take a big scrub brush and scratch these big guys back and head 😅
But at Elephant Nature Park they don’t ride elephants!!!!! And they are not supposed to hold a stick !!!!
Exactly. This presents a problem, and I don't know what to make of it. It looks like a straight-line hook, the kind that has a sharp steel point on the tip, so it barely shows at all, designed to be rather innocuous looking, not blatant, but it's still a type of hook. The ele here is Jungle Boy, who they said was never put through Crush, but eles don't allow anyone to ride them without training, so I don't understand how he's allowing a rider and someone walking on him in the river when he was never trained. The mahout stares a lot at the camera as they're coming out of the river, as if not wanting to be filmed. I don't understand this video. I've been a staunch supporter of ENP for almost 8 years now, but there are these honest questions. Eles, all the more bulls, don't just let people ride them without training, they just don't.
Looks like my last reply to you disappeared: I had pasted the url for Carol Buckley's pdf of their visit there, and apparently that is what caused the reply to vanish. I also updated you on some things I discovered, that I didn't want to post at E's videos. If you are subscribed to my channel, when I post a new playlist showing concerns, with added urls in the playlist description, YT will notify you of it, so you can read at those urls then. Otherwise, you can enter "Elephant Aid International pdf ENP" into a search engine, and it should bring it up for you, so you can read it now.
@@cacatr4495 Thank you.
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My heart is so heavy over the many things I've discovered, some I can't bear to speak. The elephant database shows that Hope killed his mahout in what looks to be 2018. In looking at Hope's page there, there are conflicting reports, but the positive one is derailed by the fact that we haven't seen any recent video of him in years, nor of Jungle Boy. In terms of recent videos, both of them have vanished. Checking all 3 of their channels, the most recent videos I've found were from years ago. It's been said that because they couldn't manage H and JB, they sent them for training, and that after Hope killed his mahout, they sold him and removed him on the sly, and it is said that H isn't even alive anymore. The ele-database shows that JB was moved for a time to Lek's family's elephant-camp (traditional), then was returned. (Lek had claimed to be disowned by their family for telling about Crush, things don't appear to be that way. They have bought many elephants from them, that is where Jungle Boy and his mother came from, that is where Mae Bua Tong (mother of Faa Mai) and daughter Tong Jaan came from.) Inside the last year, we have seen videos of all the other bulls, but it has been multiple years since we've seen either H or JB. Now I see that Navann has a slice in the end of his trunk, at least 2" long, opening his left nostril, healed that way so that it won't heal back to normal. He left his family herd in perfect condition, and now he's damaged by what can only be one thing. I fear for him and Yindee, as mahout beliefs in fear-domination are strong. There are other things, evidenced by the elephant database, purchases of very young ele-babes, separated from their mothers, that died after, one of which was recorded as having been born in the Wild the year before. I can't imagine anyone of Conscience supporting that by purchasing such a one. Having studied, I know how elephant-babes in the Wild are captured, that the captors kill their mothers and families. My heart breaks. There have also been 5 elephants that were "lost to follow-up," that went "Unknown," E wouldn't tell the database where, one of which was a babe ("Liberty"/"Libby") that was born there, now of Unknown status and whereabouts to the database. 6 others were moved to traditional elephant-camps, which doesn't mesh with having "rescued" them. So were these 11 sold? Did some die and they didn't want to say? People, including me, have politely tried to gain answers from E about serious concerns, but they don't answer those, only light questions get answered, the rest are ignored. In 2016, after a full year there, one female elephant (Sook Sai, still there, seen standing alone in the background of some videos of Bai Toey/Meeboon and others) killed her mahout. Fear-domination and violence does not work with free-moving elephants, there is no reason they should tolerate it. We have only seen about 50 of the 125 eles there, we never see the others, we have no knowledge of them. People really need to read Carol Buckley's brief pdf report, they are missing a huge piece of awareness until they do.
@@cacatr4495 Oh!
Seeing the mahout riding the elephant with a "stick" that could've been a despicable bullhook really turned me off ... I don't think ENP founder Lek would have condoned such treatment of the elephants under her care ... So, was this footage really shot at the ENP under Lek's knowledge and approval? Big Thumb Down for this video ...
Two years ago, the video poster posted a long comment saying it was filmed at ENP; you might want to read their comment. This video still raises questions. The bull in the river, Jungle Boy, was said to have never been forced through Crush, so how was it that he, being an untrained bull, allowed someone to walk on him and ride his neck?
Same here! All the mahouts with sticks! Near the beginning a mahout taps on a tire and the baby elie jumped in. It looked like the baby had been trained to act in response to the taps. An elephant with a rope around its neck? Being ridden by a mahout with a stick? This is not how ENP is portrayed in its Eleflix videos. This isn't at all like I thought ENP is. It looks to me like the elephants are being used for entertainment! Not given a sanctuary where they are free to roam and just be. This video is horrifying to me.
Please leave them to their natural live please never be cruel to them they add beauty to the nature without them we cannot survive
@anonymous I agree with you. They are going extinct. There are many many people that work tirelessly to save the elephants. Perhaps you could find one you like and donate to that group. They are everywhere. Asia as well as Africa and even one in Tennessee, USA. To find one, just stay on you tube and search elephants. They are all here. Good luck and thank you for speaking out. Education on the subject is the answer. Enjoy your day. 🐘💜🐘💜✌
I love you baby ele
Police force please take the herd of elephants to the police station properly excellent
Elephants belong to wild.They are tamed by cruel process called phajaan treatment.
You can check in you tube.
hmmm...riding his back while he is trying to enjoy playing in the water AND with what appears to be a BULLHOOK!!!
ADRIENNE ROUSSELL I see a stick.
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I see a straight-line bullhook, the kind that has a sharp, steel point on the tip of it, designed to be innocuous looking. It's the kind they use in zoos, it's made to look less fearsome, less awful, but it's still sharp pointed steel on the tip. The long handle is precisely the length and thickness and design as other bullhooks. These devices and riding are said to be "not permitted" at ENP, and eles, all the more bulls, will *not allow anyone to ride them unless the bull was trained, but the website says that Jungle Boy was never put through Crush. The ele is Jungle Boy, he was the only tusker there in 2013. Mahouts do not climb and walk on them in the river for "play," they stay atop them to try to maintain control. It has been multiple years now since we've seen a recent video of either bull Hope or Jungle Boy. You might see my ENP Babes playlist Description for related urls.
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That's an inline-bullhook, it's supposed to look innocuous, not scary, like a stick. It's the kind they use in zoos, so as not to frighten the public. There are different kinds of bullhooks, there is the kind that has a squared hook at the end, which is the obvious kind of hook, and there's an old kind that has 2 small, curved hooks off a single stem that was in one of Lek's interview videos, and there's the inline kind that has a single sharp steel point on the end that can barely be seen, which is the entire point of it, no pun intended. There may be other kinds as well, I know of other ancient types, but there may be other types in modern times. When we don't know a thing, we don't know what we're looking at, and that leaves us without understanding of what's going on. Fact is, no ele will let anyone ride him/her, including mahout, unless they have first been put through "training" to submit to man, and that is Jungle Boy in this video, who was purchased *before "training," so his allowing his mahout to climb on him and to ride his neck is proof that he was "trained" under his current owner's ownership, very concerning. That same owner has claimed practicing great ethics from the years leading up to 2002, and this video was from 2013, when JB was the only bull there with tusks. They were using chains on the adult female elephants beyond 2011, and on the bulls during Musth until 2016 (per Lek's own words in a video), and bull Hope killed his mahout in Dec.2018, and we haven't seen a recent video of either Hope or Jungle Boy in multiple years now. See the posted urls in the **description* of my ENP Babes playlist, and read @ those urls. There is much we haven't known. This video here was only a year before I began watching at ENP's channels, but they claimed the ethics-brand of "no bullhooks" about 13 years prior, about 2000 or earlier.
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