Top reasons you shouldn’t ride elephants:
#1 In order to tame them so that they accept humans on their back, they must be tortured as babies in order to break their spirit. This includes putting them in cages and holes where they can’t move, they beat them with pierced clubs and they starve them.
#2 They are an endangered species and many are illegally captured and traded.
#3 Elephants don’t forget. Therefore, though they might be rarely beaten when they are older, they are still in constant fear of what they underwent previously be their owners.
#4 Elephants have died from exhaustion, especially as they age.
#5 If anyone suggests that it somehow benefits elephant conservation, they’re likely lying. Only a handful of places with elephant shows or rides actually invest that money in conservation.
#1 In order to tame them so that they accept humans on their back, they must be tortured as babies in order to break their spirit. This includes putting them in cages and holes where they can’t move, they beat them with pierced clubs and they starve them.
#2 They are an endangered species and many are illegally captured and traded.
#3 Elephants don’t forget. Therefore, though they might be rarely beaten when they are older, they are still in constant fear of what they underwent previously be their owners.
#4 Elephants have died from exhaustion, especially as they age.
#5 If anyone suggests that it somehow benefits elephant conservation, they’re likely lying. Only a handful of places with elephant shows or rides actually invest that money in conservation.
