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it's so hypocritical how elephants are sacred in their culture and yet they keep them chained up, parade them around for entertainment, and rely on beating them as part of training. truly vile 🫩
A local sacred elephant in India was struck by lightning, the villagers gathered around and gave it a funeral with love and mourning
206 upvotes, 5 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in Environmental Baddies. "A local sacred elephant in India was struck by lightning, the villagers gathered around and gave it a funeral with love and mourning"
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Anonymous 20h

a woman gave birth to jesus and look how we treat women

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Anonymous 15h

not commonly. it just so happens that the “trained” ones are more often seen on social media.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 15h

very commonly actually

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15h

those are temple elephants. not every elephant is a temple elephant. i don’t mean this in a rude “omg there’s this one exception to the rule, therefore your whole argument is wrong” but your post is worded in a way that makes it seem as though majority of elephants are treated that way. the way temple elephants are treated is disgusting, though.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 15h

totally get what you mean & in my post i did say “paraded around” so i thought I was being specific even but regardless more than 3,000 elephants are held captive in deplorable conditions in India and they’re not all from temples. i get what you mean but the abuse goes beyond & many temples (50ish) have actually started to replace live elephants with statues so a win.

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