Animal lovers worried about captive elephants
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-12-24 10:11
Super strength chains bind the front legs of a bull Asian elephant together to prevent it attacking people while in "musth" at the Surin Elephant Round-up Festival in northeast Thailand November 17, 2007. Musth, a recurring period of heightened aggression, affects all male elephants for several weeks every year. Elephant conservationists worry that captive elephants, considered beasts of burden in Thailand, have little protection from abuse if their owners work them all day to bring in more tourist dollars. [Agencies]
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