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Kidnapped Baby Elephant Reunited With Mother After Years Apart (tissue warning!)
http://www.care2.com/causes/kidnapped-baby-elephant-reunited-with-mother-after-years-apart.html
by Alicia Graef April 9, 2015 5:30 pm
After being torn from her mother’s side for a life of slavery in Thailand, a young elephant named MeBai has finally been freed and reunited with her mother after more than three years apart.
Little MeBai was taken from her mother when she was just three-years-old to go through the “training crush.” National Geographic describes this brutal practice as a centuries-old ritual intended to domesticate young elephants through pain and fear, where they’re subjected to beatings and deprived of sleep, water and food to break their spirits and make them more submissive to their owners.
According to the Elephant Nature Park (ENP), when MeBai’s training was done, her owner hired her out to a tourist camp to be used in a mahout training program and used to give tourists rides. Sadly, she stopped eating and became too thin to work. Thanks to the efforts of the ENP and its founder, Lek Chailert, her owner decided to let her go to the organization’s Pamper A Pachyderm program, which takes in elephants from trekking programs for rehabilitation.
Soon after taking her in and helping her overcome her fear of humans, her caretakers discovered MeBai’s mother Mae Yui was at a nearby tourist camp and they then convinced Mae Yui’s owner to allow her baby to visit.
FULL story at link.
Published on Apr 3, 2015
This is the video to witness the minute of reunion Mebai - Mae Yui mother and daughter who separated for many year. See how much joy they are. Over three years apart they have a lots stories to tell to each others. Follow full story soon
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