Posted on 01/31/2016 11:06:27 AM PST by beaversmom
I’ve been to Burma several times. While there I learned how the elephants are used to harvest teak.
About six months before they want to harvest the trees they go in and strip a ring of bark off each tree they want. They go back when the trees have died and use the elephants to push the tree over. The tree then rolls down the hill to a river, or drug out where it falls after being stripped of it’s branches.
At least that’s how they did it in the ‘old’ days.
Very neat. Thanks for sharing.
No, thank you. Cool video.
Bad government, but good people.
Yeah, so many rotten regimes around the planet. And you’re welcome.
Years ago I took the family to Marineworld and we all rode on an elephant. Weird feeling to be riding on this muscular mountain of flesh. Amazing animals.
I bet. That must have been really awesome. Probably those people there do it so much, not as awesome as it would be for you and I.
sad. poaching in africa is an abomination.
All poachers in Africa should have to ride an African elephant for 5 minutes.
The one which smelled him during the attack.
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