Posted on 06/21/2021 10:07:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ratchadawan Puengprasopporn said her family was asleep when she heard noises coming from the kitchen.
When she and her husband went to investigate, they saw the elephant poking its head into her kitchen, rummaging through the shelves and eating a plastic bag containing food.
This isn’t the first intrusion she’s had from Boonmee, a wild male elephant in his forties known among residents and park officials as a frequent visitor to the village.
Local authorities and national parks officials visited Ratchadawan and her family the next day and advised her to remove food, especially anything salty.
Pattarapol Maneeon, a veterinarian from the Department of National Parks and Wildlife, explained that it is possible that there are not enough salty foods in the wild during the rainy season, forcing the elephants to look for salt in local villages.
There are an estimated 3,000 wild elephants in Thailand, according to the Thai Elephant Conservation Centre. As human push closer to the forests for land and agriculture, elephants have been forced to venture out of their shrinking habitats in search of food.
The human-elephant conflicts sometimes turned deadly and undermine the effort to conserve species. But in this case, the dispute was peacefully solved.
Boonmee will get his artificial salt licks in the forest while authorities have promised to repair Ratchadawan’s house.
“Pardon me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?”
“...Would you like some?”
We’re gonna need a bigger mousetrap.
PRyno and Boner are on the loose?
Sorry... But I find it to be a “darling”
Was he looking for “Animal Crackers”?
It’s like being at Stacy Abrams’ house.
I knew that was the reason I brought a elephant rifle.
I told the wife it was for keeping them out of the garden
She said we don’t have any elephants in the garden I told her see it is working.
Maybe now I have to have another one to keep them out of the kitchen
If my kitchen looked like that, I’d be out rifling through the elephant’s pantry.......
“I knew that was the reason I brought a elephant rifle.”
“I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.” - Groucho Marx
At first I thought this was about my ex sister in law.
It’s there, but nobody wants to talk about it.
Did they shoot it in their pajamas?
How did it get in their pajamas?
maybe it’s looking for political donations...
Groucho shoots an elephant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh52-cSwNH8
Thailand?
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