What you should realise is that elephants are wild animals and they will not willingly allow humans close contact unless they have been subjugated first. This involves some pretty harsh training. Google pajaan. These elephants do seem to have a pretty good life in the forest unlike many captive elephants,but they deserve respect too. And I think climbing up their faces to get on their backs is a bit disrespectful. Walking with them is fine,as the lady did here. The research you quote suggesting there is no harm in riding is basically propaganda put out by those who support the Elephant tourist industry. Let elephants be elephants,not bucket list tourist props.
Cruel. The answer to the question in your screencap is cruel. Don't ride elephants. It injures their spines. Do your research into ethical sanctuaries and don't ever do this again.
Thanks for the feedback, but be sure to watch the actual video. You'll learn that research has shown that the impact on the spine is not the case 1) when there is no saddle and 2) when you sit on their shoulders as opposed to the middle of their back. This is one of the most reputable groups in the area, so we'll trust their decades of experience.
@@joshuaandalexa I'm sorry to tell you that shoulder-riding also causes elephants pain and disfigurement. Logging, construction work, carrying tourists around -- all of these maim elephants. And the places that use elephants this way train them harshly and, even worse, take their babies away to train THEM harshly. There are other places you could go to that do not break elephants' spirits and bodies. Please, never again support a place that offers elephant rides.
@@deer3902 I think you need to do more research on this tribe and this field. I’d encourage you to look at the research from Chiang Mai University on this topic.
That research has more holes in it than a sieve!! and in any case does not address the brutal training required to be able to climb on an elephants back! @@joshuaandalexa
I am so jealous 🐘
Maybe we roll ProTech out to the Karen Tribe? 😆
What you should realise is that elephants are wild animals and they will not willingly allow humans close contact unless they have been subjugated first. This involves some pretty harsh training. Google pajaan. These elephants do seem to have a pretty good life in the forest unlike many captive elephants,but they deserve respect too. And I think climbing up their faces to get on their backs is a bit disrespectful. Walking with them is fine,as the lady did here.
The research you quote suggesting there is no harm in riding is basically propaganda put out by those who support the Elephant tourist industry.
Let elephants be elephants,not bucket list tourist props.
Cruel. The answer to the question in your screencap is cruel. Don't ride elephants. It injures their spines. Do your research into ethical sanctuaries and don't ever do this again.
Thanks for the feedback, but be sure to watch the actual video. You'll learn that research has shown that the impact on the spine is not the case 1) when there is no saddle and 2) when you sit on their shoulders as opposed to the middle of their back. This is one of the most reputable groups in the area, so we'll trust their decades of experience.
@@joshuaandalexa I'm sorry to tell you that shoulder-riding also causes elephants pain and disfigurement. Logging, construction work, carrying tourists around -- all of these maim elephants. And the places that use elephants this way train them harshly and, even worse, take their babies away to train THEM harshly. There are other places you could go to that do not break elephants' spirits and bodies. Please, never again support a place that offers elephant rides.
@@deer3902 I think you need to do more research on this tribe and this field. I’d encourage you to look at the research from Chiang Mai University on this topic.
That research has more holes in it than a sieve!! and in any case does not address the brutal training required to be able to climb on an elephants back! @@joshuaandalexa