Elephant rage in Amer

March 6, 2007

Dear All,

Yet another example of elephant rage was seen on 3rd March

when two elephants started fighting in Amer. The fight started

around 10 am when (elephant number 12) , who was climbing up to the

Amer fort carrying two foreigner girls on its back was hit by

another (elephant number 115) who was on her way back from the fort.

The blow was so strong that the tourist girls were shaken and they

started shouting for help. Soon, the two animals started struggling

with each other giving even harder blows. They even hit each other

with their trunks and fore head. Meanwhile the terrified riders kept

shouting for help but nothing could be done and soon both the girls

along with the hauda fell from elephant back to the ground. The

panic strikken girls somehow managed to run away from the elephants.

The poor girls who had nearly escaped death were so scared with the

whole incident that they cried for half an hour. The angry

elephants continued to fight making loud noise which echoed in the

whole valley. Soon a lot of mahauts, tourist guides and other

visitors rushed to the scene. The mahauts somehow managed to control

elephant number 115 with the help of Ankush and sticks. But, by the

time the other one was badly injured. The first elephant who was

very angry and started the big fight is known to be ill natured and

tourism department had instructed its owner long back to keep 2

mahauts for her. But this instruction was not followed by the owner

and we can see the results. Elephant number 12 was supposed to take

part in the elephant festival later that evening but due to injuries

she could not make it. For the time being tourism department has

banned elephant number 115 as she is declared unfit for riding.

But, again this incident shows us that elephants are after

all wild animals and they have a dark side too. They have their mood

swings like us which can be fatal for others. Such deadly encounters

show a natural outburst of anger which may be due to frustration of

being chained whole day, due to illtreatment by mahauts, may be

because of monotony of their captive lives. Whatever the reason may

be but one major issue which I would like to point out is that we

human beings very often forget that besides being largest animals on

land, elephants are highly emotional and intelligent beings. They

too have certain psychological issues which we tend to neglect.

Specially captive animals have many psychological disorders due to

pain of confinement and monotony. It shows us the fact that

elephants after all belong to the wild only no matter how much we

try to tame them.

March 7, 2007

Eti, I think we have provided enough reasons for those who ride

elephants for entertainment that it is not all that safe to do so.

Neither for the animal nor for the rider.

But it seems that the masses want to learn it learn it the hard way. So let

it be.

Remember one thing the insurance companies are also closely observing

these incidents. For us the more the better.

I have sent enough materials to the Multinational Insurance companies for

awareness that those who get injured by playing games on/with elephants

or riding them in India, are doing so at their own risk despite cautions and

warnings and hence they should not be eligible to get any form

of medical insurance or for injuries or death as a result.

Similar letters have been sent to the foreign embassies in India to caution

the

citizens of their respective countries to abstain themselves from

endangering

their precious lives and avoid close contacts with Asian domesticated wild

elephants.

Please do keep me informed of more such incidents.

Good job Eti, keep it up.

I think now the Rajasthan Tourism can promote this incident as another

revenue earner for their state called 'ELEPHANT FALLS'

On 06 Mar 2007 13:00:49 -0800, etivyas <etivyas wrote:

>

> Dear All,

> Yet another example of elephant rage was seen on 3rd March

> when two elephants started fighting in Amer. The fight started

> around 10 am when (elephant number 12) , who was climbing up to the

> Amer fort carrying two foreigner girls on its back was hit by

> another (elephant number 115) who was on her way back from the fort.

> The blow was so strong that the tourist girls were shaken and they

> started shouting for help. Soon, the two animals started struggling

> with each other giving even harder blows. They even hit each other

> with their trunks and fore head. Meanwhile the terrified riders kept

> shouting for help but nothing could be done and soon both the girls

> along with the hauda fell from elephant back to the ground. The

> panic strikken girls somehow managed to run away from the elephants.

> The poor girls who had nearly escaped death were so scared with the

> whole incident that they cried for half an hour. The angry

> elephants continued to fight making loud noise which echoed in the

> whole valley. Soon a lot of mahauts, tourist guides and other

> visitors rushed to the scene. The mahauts somehow managed to control

> elephant number 115 with the help of Ankush and sticks. But, by the

> time the other one was badly injured. The first elephant who was

> very angry and started the big fight is known to be ill natured and

> tourism department had instructed its owner long back to keep 2

> mahauts for her. But this instruction was not followed by the owner

> and we can see the results. Elephant number 12 was supposed to take

> part in the elephant festival later that evening but due to injuries

> she could not make it. For the time being tourism department has

> banned elephant number 115 as she is declared unfit for riding.

> But, again this incident shows us that elephants are after

> all wild animals and they have a dark side too. They have their mood

> swings like us which can be fatal for others. Such deadly encounters

> show a natural outburst of anger which may be due to frustration of

> being chained whole day, due to illtreatment by mahauts, may be

> because of monotony of their captive lives. Whatever the reason may

> be but one major issue which I would like to point out is that we

> human beings very often forget that besides being largest animals on

> land, elephants are highly emotional and intelligent beings. They

> too have certain psychological issues which we tend to neglect.

> Specially captive animals have many psychological disorders due to

> pain of confinement and monotony. It shows us the fact that

> elephants after all belong to the wild only no matter how much we

> try to tame them.

>

March 7, 2007

*

Abraham Lincon once said " You can fool some of the people all the time, and

all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people

all of the time " .* So let all the people who say that using captive

elephants for entertainment purposes (be it elephant safari or elephant

polo) is *'safe'*, now explain if it really is so? I have some terrific

ideas for you guys (supporters of this madness); how about elephant

long-jump, or may be elephant hi-jump or may be elephant pole vault; I mean

for folks who can make the elephant play a game of polo or have them forced

into a mad (running) race, this shouldnt be too difficult either! And you

have the capacity to prove to anyone and everyone who could and who are

supposed to stand up against this, that it is all 'safe' and that the

elephants 'enjoy' this madness. People have been bought over by greed,

selfishness, incompassion and if that werent enough, as angels from hell you

will deliver these elephants from this world now and soon forever.

Eti, thanks for sharing that article with us here! I found it funny that

there was a mention that one of those elephants was not *TOURIST FRIENDLY. *I

ask the people who have something to do with wildlife, even remotely, why

the hell should the elephant be friendly to the tourist? Why should the

elephants not have behaved the way they did? Agression is an expression and

unfortunately for them, the biggest *'crime'* they did that day. There are

reports that later that day the elephant recieved *'appropriate punishment'

*for what she did (*DID WHAT??*)! I ask all the people to give that a

thought and for those who think that what I have said is incorrect, I

suggest you to take a few days off from the plush apartments you have lived

in all your life,to go to the jungle and see, and learn what/how the (few

remaining) elephants in the wild do/live!

All the people who encourage, conduct and use the elephants in entertainment

- in this case *'fun' *safari and elephant polo should be penalized and

charged in an 'attempt to murder' because this could be seen as a case where

you or I were to shoot into a crowd randomly and hope no one got hit, and if

they did, it is afterall just one of the bullets that hit and still got away

scott free! You are using an equally obtuse analogy when saying that

elephant polo/ ride is safe!

I mean knowing very well that they are dealing with a wild animal, I

consider that riding on an elephant or playing a game atop an elephant is

suicidal and if by law an attempt to committ suicide is punishable or can be

fined, I dont see why this is not happening in this case too!

Like Azam mentioned, we have been working with the insurance companies

worldwide to bring in a ruling that will consider injury or death to a

person in the event of 'riding' an elephant or playing elephant polo as *NOT

* eligible for an insurance. And there is a *good news *that I recieved just

a few hours ago - One of the world's leading insurance firm has responded

positively to the appeal that Azam and I have been filing with them (and

others) and have expressed their desire to consider this in the category of

*HIGH-RISK *which implies that such a (stupid) mishap will not be considered

for insurance. Once we manage to crack the nut all the other insurance

companies are soon going to follow suit.

I once again appeal to all of you and to all the various organizations, who

for many years have been putting in a whole lot of work for the animals

world over, not to back off from this when we, or rather they, the

elephants, need you the most! They need more than a just press release that

too days after an event like this! They need you and us to stand up and

revolt;even if it meant displeasing/ fighting with your friends/ politicans/

other organizations, not looking out for big banners, not looking out to be

there for '*them'* only if a celebrity was around, basically *not forgetting

what our actual objective is!

*

It is upto us to do the role of a cleaner trying to restore a statue thats

gathered a lot of dirt; its hard to get it off, may take many a hands to

scrub them off, slowly but effectively; we may get hurt and bruised but we

need to carry on, not giving up until we can atleast recognise the face, the

face that we once called humanity. Open your eyes and see that the elephants

are better off in the wild! Not that they are not friendly to Man, they

would not have needed a few of us if Man left them alone in the wild! Stop

anything where captivity of a wild animal is involved, be it elephant rides

or elephant polo! Ban them all!!!

Thanks,

Pablo

On 3/7/07, AZAM SIDDIQUI <azam24x7 wrote:

>

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------

> AZAM SIDDIQUI <azam24x7

> Mar 7, 2007 10:14 AM

> Re: Elephant rage in Amer

> etivyas <etivyas

> Cc: aapn

>

> Eti, I think we have provided enough reasons for those who ride

> elephants for entertainment that it is not all that safe to do so.

> Neither for the animal nor for the rider.

>

> But it seems that the masses want to learn it learn it the hard way. So

> let it be.

> Remember one thing the insurance companies are also closely observing

> these incidents. For us the more the better.

> I have sent enough materials to the Multinational Insurance companies for

> awareness that those who get injured by playing games on/with elephants

> or riding them in India, are doing so at their own risk despite cautions

> and

> warnings and hence they should not be eligible to get any form

> of medical insurance or for injuries or death as a result.

>

> Similar letters have been sent to the foreign embassies in India to

> caution the

> citizens of their respective countries to abstain themselves from

> endangering

> their precious lives and avoid close contacts with Asian domesticated wild

> elephants.

>

> Please do keep me informed of more such incidents.

>

> Good job Eti, keep it up.

>

> I think now the Rajasthan Tourism can promote this incident as another

> revenue earner for their state called 'ELEPHANT FALLS'

>

> On 06 Mar 2007 13:00:49 -0800, etivyas <etivyas > wrote:

> >

> > Dear All,

> > Yet another example of elephant rage was seen on 3rd March

> > when two elephants started fighting in Amer. The fight started

> > around 10 am when (elephant number 12) , who was climbing up to the

> > Amer fort carrying two foreigner girls on its back was hit by

> > another (elephant number 115) who was on her way back from the fort.

> > The blow was so strong that the tourist girls were shaken and they

> > started shouting for help. Soon, the two animals started struggling

> > with each other giving even harder blows. They even hit each other

> > with their trunks and fore head. Meanwhile the terrified riders kept

> > shouting for help but nothing could be done and soon both the girls

> > along with the hauda fell from elephant back to the ground. The

> > panic strikken girls somehow managed to run away from the elephants.

> > The poor girls who had nearly escaped death were so scared with the

> > whole incident that they cried for half an hour. The angry

> > elephants continued to fight making loud noise which echoed in the

> > whole valley. Soon a lot of mahauts, tourist guides and other

> > visitors rushed to the scene. The mahauts somehow managed to control

> > elephant number 115 with the help of Ankush and sticks. But, by the

> > time the other one was badly injured. The first elephant who was

> > very angry and started the big fight is known to be ill natured and

> > tourism department had instructed its owner long back to keep 2

> > mahauts for her. But this instruction was not followed by the owner

> > and we can see the results. Elephant number 12 was supposed to take

> > part in the elephant festival later that evening but due to injuries

> > she could not make it. For the time being tourism department has

> > banned elephant number 115 as she is declared unfit for riding.

> > But, again this incident shows us that elephants are after

> > all wild animals and they have a dark side too. They have their mood

> > swings like us which can be fatal for others. Such deadly encounters

> > show a natural outburst of anger which may be due to frustration of

> > being chained whole day, due to illtreatment by mahauts, may be

> > because of monotony of their captive lives. Whatever the reason may

> > be but one major issue which I would like to point out is that we

> > human beings very often forget that besides being largest animals on

> > land, elephants are highly emotional and intelligent beings. They

> > too have certain psychological issues which we tend to neglect.

> > Specially captive animals have many psychological disorders due to

> > pain of confinement and monotony. It shows us the fact that

> > elephants after all belong to the wild only no matter how much we

> > try to tame them.

> >

>

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March 7, 2007

Really Shame for those who support & Promote Animals in Entertainment.

etivyas <etivyas wrote: Dear All,