Posted on 09/16/2009 8:58:16 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Wow! What is that?
I suspect a Google image search for “hung elephants” should be performed only with safe search turned on.
She’s lucky it wasn’t feces.
Suposedly, that elephant went on a rampage and killed one or more people. It was a circus elephant and was probably spooked by the crowd. Anyway, a trial was held and the judge sentenced the poor guy to be hung. And it was. It’s a true story. This happened in either the late 1800’s or early 1900’s. Weird , isn’t it?
Strange you would use that phrase. That’s exactly what I used to find the image.
It sure is! Wikipedia says the elephant's name was Mary and it was hung in 1916 in Tennessee.
A woman surnamed Kim...in Korea? What’s the chances of that?
Elephants ARE animals, after all, and mentally - from a human perspective - quite juvenile and behave much more on primal instinct, and yet do have “emotions” - responses driven by pain, pleasure, rememberences of what is painful or pleasurable and yes, even anger.
As to the elephant in question, in the KBS and MBC news footage of the story (Korean national news networks), the zoo’s enclosure is horrible and very small for an animal the size of an elephant. In addition, elephants are very social animals and this one is by itself. Even the close-ups of its skin look so bad that maybe some elephant rescue charity will be sent some videos about it and try to help it out.
I am sure the elephant does not likely distinguish that much between any of the humans it has contact with or sees. To an elephant they are all part of the same group that has it locked up. So, if the elephant was “angry” and decided to pitch a rock (which the more extensive footage shows it doing) in the direction of the people observing it, the woman who was struck should not take it personally - any general area of people standing nearby could have been it’s “target”.
The rocks themselves seem strangely (very many of them and broken into many sizes) too prominent a feature inside the enclosure, in as much as the natural habitat for elephants are plains with patches of shrubs and trees and not particularly rocky terrain at all. The handlers must have all along viewed the rock piles they gave the elephant as cheap toys in the first place.
Most I've seen are a gray color.
Is my dyslexia showing? And I've never heard of the color gary. ;-)
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