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Thai Elephants

December 23, 2019

An elephant having a bath before the arrival of tourists during the annual Surin Elephant Round-up festival in the northeastern Thai province of Surin. Separated from their mothers, jabbed with metal hooks, and sometimes deprived of food, Thai elephants are tamed by force before being sold to lucrative tourism sites increasingly advertised as 'sanctuaries' to cruelty-conscious travellers. — AFP


December 23, 2019
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