(TH): Will this stop the pandamonium?

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Will this stop the pandamonium? Thai elephants painted to look like pandas

after the black and white bears steal their fans

 

 

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Last updated at 7:36 PM on 26th June 2009

 

It is a desperate cry - or rather a very loud trumpet - for attention.

 

These elephants were painted black and white to look like the pandas who

have stolen all their fans.

 

The elephant is Thailand's national symbol, but the country has gone

panda-crazy since the birth of a female panda cub to pandas Lin Hui and

Xuang Xuang at Chiang Mai zoo in Bangkok.

 

The Bangkok Post also reported that a 20 million baht (£355,800) snow house

was being built for the panda family at the zoo.

 

Sick of all the fuss, keepers at the Ayutthaya-Elephant Kraal decided to

take drastic-action, painting five of their neglected giants in watercolour

paint, then parading them before schoolchildren.

 

The stunt has resulted in panda-monium as the zookeepers try to draw the

country's attention back to its neglected giants.

 

Some told the Bangkok Post website that the keepers had gone 'a bit

overboard', but others applauded their action.

 

'Right on! It's time the Government took care of its national symbol... the

elephant!' one reader wrote.

 

'The Chinese have taken care of theirs so why not Thailand?'

 

Slathering them in white watercolour paint, the keepers at the Ayutthaya

Elephant Kraal then paraded the five elephants before schoolchildren in an

effort to remind Thailand that its elephants have needs, too.

 

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