- Baby Elephant Torture
In order to tame these wild animals, they have to go through tremendous tortures from young. In order to do that, it involves a process called Phajaan, or “the crush”.During this process, the baby elephants are isolated from their parents, locked up in cages where they are unable to move. They are then being beaten into submission by clubs, and at the same time, starved and deprived of sleep (Karsten, n.d.)
- Controlling Elephants Elephant maltreatment does not stop when they grow up. Many elephant camps use bull-hooks to control the animals. Bull-hooks are used during training and as a result, elephants are conditioned to fear bull-hooks, which make it easier for mahouts to control them during elephant trekking rides (Karsten, n.d.).
- Long Term Body Harms Elephants’ spines are not meant to hold the weight of humans. Their skin gets injured due to the saddle and equipments and not forgetting, the wounds from bull-hooks (Francis, 2014).