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Phnom Penh - An elephant that was captured in southern Cambodia after terrorizing a village has been sent to a zoo for 're-education' and may be mated with a female, local media reported Friday.
The bull elephant, known as Sambo, was tranquilized on Wednesday after stomping its owner to death and running amok in the village last week, trampling crops and harassing residents.
Locals responded by attacking the beast with sticks, knives and fireworks before the Cambodian Forestry Administration subdued it.
Cheng Kimsun, director of the Forestry Administration, told the Phnom Penh Post newspaper that the government had decided not to euthanize the pugnacious pachyderm.
'Sambo is not crazy, but he has lived a very stressful life because he had been mistreated for so many years,' Cheng Kimsun said. 'He was chained down, he could not go anywhere and he also had no wife - he needs his freedom.'
Nhek Ratanapich, the director of Cambodia's Phnom Tamao zoo, told the Post that zoo officials hope to pair Sambo with a similarly aggressive female elephant called Srey Pao.
'I hope that after Sambo stays with Srey Pao he will be happy, his stress will be released and his mental condition will improve in the future, and finally, he can be a nice elephant again,' Nhek Ratanapich said.
Other experts cautioned that Sambo may not yet be ready to rejoin fellow elephants after his rampage.
'Integrating him with other elephants is very important, but from what I have observed from this elephant, putting him in contact with other elephants is not advised at the moment,' said Jack Highwood, the head of an elephant sanctuary in Cambodia's Mondulkiri province.
2 comments:
ah! kWACK in real education! we can observe the behavios of the animal and put it in to use for humanbeing! ( YOu need no exact case like Koh pich to leurn about Koh Pich, PhD!)
In Sambo case:"'Sambo is not crazy, but he has lived a very stressful life because he had been mistreated for so many years,' Cheng Kimsun said. 'He was chained down, he could not go anywhere and he also had no wife - he needs his freedom.''
One day, the stressful Cambodian will turn on you stupid thugs, in millions! What would you stupid head going to do and to hide, then ?
Stop! be stupid and blind! give people justice and don't hurt the poor and took away land from poor people!!!!!
Leurn stupid! your PhD from Hanoi is a faked! use your brain stop listening to you evil profesor from Hanoi evil youn Vietnamese motherfucker!!!!!
Crazy elephan is crontrol by his dick just like Ranarith!
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