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The park, located about 2.5 hours outside of Bangkok, is the third-largest national park in Thailand and home to 70 species of animals, including elephants, otters, bears and gaurs.
Motola (born ca 1961) is a female Asian elephant in Thailand who stepped on a landmine in 1999 while working at a logging camp near the Burmese border. [1] At the time of the accident, she was 38 years old. The mine mangled her left front foot and leg, and her foot was amputated shortly after.
Navaan, born at the park in October 2012, with founder Lek Chailert. Female elephant (Dok Ngern, 15 years, with newly born Dok Mai) (23 days). Elephant Nature Park is a sanctuary and rescue centre for elephants in Mae Taeng District, Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand, approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Chiang Mai city, co-founded by Sangduen "Lek" Chailert.
The elephant found in Thailand is the Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus), a subspecies of the Asian elephant. In the early-20th century there were an estimated 100,000 captive elephants in Thailand. [3] In mid-2007 there were an estimated 3,456 captive elephants left in Thailand and roughly a thousand wild elephants. By 2017 the number ...
García was hurt by a female elephant, 45-year-old female Phang Somboon, at the Koh Yao Elephant Care Centre in southern Thailand. Her boyfriend, who had been travelling with her, was also at the ...
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The Elephant Kraal is known in Thai as Phaniat Khlong Chang (Thai: เพนียดคล้องช้าง, pronounced [pʰā.nîa̯t kʰlɔ́ːŋ t͡ɕʰáːŋ]).The first element phaniat (Thai: เพนียด) means 'a ground for capturing elephants', or 'elephant corrals', or 'working place for elephants and taking care of elephant corrals' in a broader sense; the second element ...
Buddhist monks in Thailand on Friday blessed twin baby elephants, one male and the other female, a week after their rare birth came close to being a tragedy. The Ayutthaya Elephant Palace & Royal ...