Naut's Tidbits & Snippets for Thursday, July 09, 2009

Thursday, July 9, 2009

And in Thailand: Orphaned Elephants…

Walking the streets of Thailand, you just might find a lone elephant pushing through traffic. Tourists don’t mind, but authorities have had enough. Their solution: offer the animals up for adoption. Some have already paid up to 500,000 baht (US$14,644) to buy an elephant. “[Elephants] are icons of... Sign in to see full entry.

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