Thai elephants in their national day buffet of fruit covered the tables
BANGKOK, 13 Mar — RIA Novosti. Buffets of fruit for the workers and wild elephants organized in Thailand on Monday to celebrate National elephant day, according to the Third national TV channel.
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In all tourist “elephant villages” and the elephant crash (places where bred and trained working elephants) on this day held a religious ceremony to improve the karma of elephants, as many Thai Buddhists believe that the elephant is the last step of the rebirth of the soul in the form of an animal before birth for the individual. Also crash arrange buffets of fruit as a festive dinner for elephants living there.
Enthusiasts help wild elephants staged on Monday buffets and in the jungle for wild elephants. These “elephant feast” was organized away from cultivated fields and human habitations, so as not to attract elephants to the plantations of fruits and vegetables, which they periodically attack due to the lack of forage in the forest.
According to official figures, Thailand 2.7 thousand workers and more than 3.5 thousand wild elephants. Authorities announced Monday that in most nature reserves inhabited by wild elephants, their population has been steadily increasing.
The elephant is considered one of the national symbols of Thailand. In the past the sacred white elephant was the main symbol of royalty in Siam (now Thailand), Laos and Cambodia.
Elephant day is celebrated in Thailand since 1998.