Posted on 01/16/2021 10:49:40 AM PST by nickcarraway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Walk
My grammie took me to see this in the the’ater ,didnt have a clue what was going on but do recall a stampede that impressed me at that age.
She loved it
Beat me to it.
The elephants in this country do that, primarily to registrants of their own party.
I know Khao Yai Ntl Park very well and have spent quite a bit of time there , hiking and exploring . There are definitely wild elephants , and some tigers too. All sorts of wildlife in those cool mountains, the closest natural forest getaway from Bangkok. It’s beautiful. But I always rented a cabin and never tent camped . For the very reason if the wildlife . You could end up with a cobra in your tent. I can still.hear the sound of the deep Thai jungle , at night, in my head. I would hear the sound of the occasional roar , or elephant trumpeting. Awesome stuff . Gibbon troops singing in the forest canopy .
I hate when elephants get mad at me.
I first thought maybe that Elephant wanted revenge. That is when that cartoon game to mind.
Ohhh so very true!
If the elephant wanted the pomelos, he would have attacked the car. He was probably in must (i.e., over-the-top horny, hopped up on the pachyderm equivalent of testosterone) and just looking for trouble.
Trunk Lives Matter!
Official cause of death: covid
Only for donkeys
It’s a comic strip. Cartoons are animated. And who doesn’t have 3 or 4 compilation books of The Far Side? I have several in the bathroom for when I forget my phone.
““ Campers in Khao Yai were shocked out of their sleep on Friday morning when a wild elephant invaded the camping ground and killed an old man sleeping in his tent.”
Major takeaway...
Never sleep in an elephants tent.”
It was revenge. The old man had shot the elephants brother in his pajamas.
Well played :)
I bet mating season was hell.
Bull elephant in must. Even the “tame” bulls have to be chained when in must.
No idea . Tge elephants seemed pretty serene to me, but I never ran into them on the trails ( other than their poop) I worried about tigers , for which I always carried my Collins short machete ( drawn & at the ready) Better’n nothing! Cobras and various vipers were another concern...I would wave my blade over the far side of any log U had to step over, to provoke a strike , if any were lurking....never were . But the King Cobra was another matter . They would/could chase you. Came across one crossing a park road once . It spanned the entire road. I stopped on the roadside directly in front of its passage and he reared up to the window and fanned its hood out and stared me in the eye . As uf ti say “ Puny human ! Why impeadest thou my path!?” Time froze....and of course the windows were rolled up.
I think the account of these death scene may have left out an element . I suspect the man left his tent and tried to guard his load of Som-o , which had attracted the elephant . The elephant then removed the impediment
Pet mongoose?
Mongoose are skillful , they understand tha a cobra can only strike as far as they can raise up ( plus and inch or two) Vipers on the other other hand can and do launch their strikes. All it takes is one hit and the mongoose is lunch. Russel’s pit vipers in SEA are bad news . As is the Malaysian green pit viper, what are called un Thai ‘ ngoo jong ang’, the snake with the burnt tail. Had a close call with one of those once , but that’s another story
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