Two, two-year old baby elephants embraced the World Cup spirit and played soccer at the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand. Both Dok Geaw, the male, and Thong Ae, the female, were orphaned at a young age.
Dok Geaw was only 4 months old when his mother died. She had been forced to carry logs, and giving birth caused infection and a prolapsed uterus. Yet despite this, she never received the rest and care she needed. She was put back to work until she was so sick that the Elephant Conservation Hospital couldn’t save her. Luckily, Dok Geaw entered the safety of the sanctuary and was nursed as a baby until he could join a herd.
Thong Ae entered the sanctuary with her nanny elephants, the name given to elephants who act as a surrogate mothers for the orphans. She and Dok Geaw have been playmates for over a year now, and have developed a wonderful sibling relationship. Thankfully they were rescued at a very young age, escaping a life of abuse.
Unfortunately, it’s still common for elephants to be legally and illegally used for logging, tourism, forced to endure unbelievable torture. While Thong Ae and Dok Geaw have fun playing soccer with each other, enslaved elephants in Thailand are being painted with flags of countries, mounted by jockeys, and forced to play soccer while being hit with bull hooks. It’s barbaric and cruel.
Elephants deserve a life of play in their natural habitat. They should be free to practice their own soccer moves like rolling over to cover the ball, dribbling in water, carrying the ball between their trunk and mouth, and randomly kicking the ball with no goal in sight.
What a wonderful post!
What a couple of cute kids! When one of them rolled over the soccer ball, it reminded me how my dogs behave with their toys. How sad for those who fail to see the joy inherent in sentient beings. Thank you for a sweet video during these very oppressive times!
Wonderful to see!
I am so glad the elephants are living free and happy. Thank you for saving these elephants.
this is how elephants should live! free and happy. They sure know how to play ball!!!
That’s so cute! This is how elephants should live, free and happy.
Finally a beautiful video to watch!!! Looks like they are having
a good time, THANK GOD!!!
That is a beautiful moment to watch those babies playing and being happy as all animals should be. It angers me that in today’s world, people still don’t have the common sence of a turnip. They don’t, YET, realize that animals are living beings that deserve peace, happiness, respect and love. Wake up Thailand and humanize yourselves. Stop abusing, torturing and killing your animals in the name of tourism and entertainment. Get your butts out there in the field and play hockey and leave the elephants alone. You idiots need a taste of your own medicine. Those babies work and work and entertain for you and you pay them back with torture. You know, one day and really, really think about this, karma will happen and you will have to face it when it happens to you. And it is going to happen to you, so be ready.
It will be good to make it illegal to use elephants for work and entertainment.
So very, very many elephants tortured, living lives of pure hell or facing it like little Suman & Sita that Ballu Khan & his brother have gotten their hands on. I though we had gotten Little Suman, only 6 mos old freed to go to a sanctuary with older sister Peanut. Kahn regularly beats these animals mercilessly with an axe & burns them. It shouldn’t be THAT hard to put these 2 away, take the elephants, get them to a sanctuary, perhaps with Suman & Peanut, to get the care they so desperately need, the love they deserve. I also thought that through GreaterGood.com Silivai, the sweet elephant even forced to log with two broken legs, expected to repeatedly give birth, having babies forcibly taken from her to be done the same way. The last we hear from GreaterGood.com was that Love & Bananas Elephant Sanctuary was on the way to rescue her, that her freedom had been gained. However it is WONDERFUL to hear of these two & others that are saved & will never face that kind of life!
They are so Cute, and Prove just how Smart and Sentient Beautiful Beings they are <3 <3 <3 <3
Lovely and comical!
BEYOND PRECIOUS!!!!!
We must petition the Govt about this torture and teach alternatives so poverty can never be uses as an excuse for exploitation
I am so happy that these baby elephants were saved in enjoying themselves in their natural habitat.
I am real happy to hear these 2 baby’s were saved and I hope for all the other elephants who are forced to to live that horrible life can be safe and happy one day very soon. It’s sad to think this is even going on,elephants are born to be free beautiful strong and proud,to roamand be happy not tortured. So I hope this can change for them.
Very cute, it is always nice to see wild animals acting naturally and enjoying themselves.thats the way it should be.
Beautiful — thank you for properly taking care of them — they’re happy and healthy.
So woderful to see this film and re-start to believ in some Human beings . Thank you Lady FreeThinker
I am so happy to hear that these two elephants are playing their own version of siccer in the sanctuary. ??
Awesome! Cheers to all those involved in the Elephant Nature Park.
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