A way to help would just be informing others about this abuse and avoid elephant shows and elephant ridings.ĭ. Most of the tourists, or I like to think all, that have ridden or will ride elephants are completely oblivious to the abuse behind it.Ĭ. Transition: Lastly, how can we help? we can actually help these animals just by awareness.ī. Definition: Gabrielle Nagle, a writer for Wild Life Extra, defines street begging elephants to be starved elephants that are “dragged around the city in chains by their owners who charge tourists to feed them”Ī. They are either sent back to the wild, which most of them don’t survive, or used again for tourist attractions.Į. Elephants’ backs cannot hold a lot of weight and people riding them leads to permanent spine injuries.Ĭ. Transition: What happens when they become too old, too tired, too overworked?ī. These spirit broken elephants are then used for riding and tourism.Ī. Quotation: Diane Edelman, the author of a very popular travel blog, D Travels Round, says that this abusive training is the general and accepted way that was designed to break a baby elephant’s spirit and even possibly, more probably, leading the animal to insanity.ĭ. The young elephants are beaten with sharp instruments, deprived of sleep, and are given no water and food for several days, even weeks.Ĭ. The Phajaan is a long time tradition in the Thai culture.ī. Transition: Now I will talk about the Phajaan.Ī. So the baby elephants snatched from their mothers at a very young age and then confined into cages. To break an elephant’s spirit, its easier to apply the breaking process, also know as the Phajaan or crush, to the animal.Į. Why a baby elephant? Why is a full grown elephant less desirable than the baby?ĭ. Statistic: According to Christina Russo, a reporter of the Dodo, today the market value of a healthy baby elephant in the captive industry will cost up to $33,000, and baby elephants are one of the most desired.Ĭ. Transition: I will firstly be talking about the capture of baby elephants.ī. I will then talk about how to help these animals.Ī. Preview: I will go through the before and during process and results of the rigorous training these animals go through for the tourism business.
Motivation: I myself did not know or even think about what elephants go through, and I was terrified when I found out about the behind scenes of Thailand’s elephant riding.ĭ. Thesis: Although there is a beauty to riding a majestic elephant, there is a dark side to it that most people are unaware of.Ĭ. Attention Getter: Mathew Karsten, writer for the Expert Vagabond, reported that well for an elephant to let a human to ride it, the animal’s spirit must be broken.ī.