Question

what was cruel about the way the baby elephant was urged out of the pit ?​

Answer 1

Disturbing new footage shows the barbaric training process dubbed ‘the crush’ that baby elephants undergo in Thailand to get them ready to interact with tourists. Undercover footage, filmed by charity World Animal Protection (WAP), shows seven baby elephants being subjected to the cruel practice in 2018, 2019 and 2020, after being torn away from their mothers at the age of two and placed in isolation. Trainers use bull hooks, sticks and nails to inflict pain on the crying calves during two sessions a day so they learn to submit to humans, footage shows. They are then chained and tied by their neck and ankles to a wooden frame called a ‘crush’ box.