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simply-thai.com - thai market - destination guides - Chiangmai Sight Seeing - Elephants in Thailand - As the national animal of Thailand, the elephant has a special place in Thai lore. Elephants were once numerous, ranging over extensive forest habitats that covered much of Northern Thailand till the middle of this century. In former times the animal was the equivalent of a battle tank, an off-road vehicle and a ten wheel truck. The symbol of kingship since ancient times, a white elephant required such elaborate care that a gift of one from a king was enough to bring ruination to an over ambitious courtier; hence the English expression a 'white elephant'. Ironically ordinary elephants have become 'white elephants' to poor mahouts, who are no longer able to find work for their animals logging in the hills and have to abandon them. The abandoned beasts are unable to find sufficient open land and have been destroying crops. As a result, they are hunted and shot.

 

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