22MOON.COM
You can see the whole Earth from the Moon!

.

.

___

.

.

Baby

elephant

trapped in

manhole

August 11th, 2009

ANANOVA

A rescue operation was

launched in Thailand after a

baby elephant got stuck

in a drainage ditch.

The elephant lost its footing

and fell in the ditch while walking

with his owner in Rayong province,

eastern Thailand,

reports the Daily Telegraph.

It took three hours

to rescue the calf,

with a team using a bulldozer

to widen the manhole,

and it was eventually

freed unharmed.

Mahouts,

the men who drive the elephants,

often use them to beg on the

streets of many of the larger

cities in Thailand.

Baby elephants,

sought after due to their

cute appearance,

are among the most sought after,

with some taught tricks

to appeal to tourists.

Other elephants are used

to perform heavy manual work.

Concerns over animal cruelty

have led to many areas of Thailand

banning elephant displays,

although it has not stopped

a number of mahouts continuing

to use them for tourism.

.

.

_______________________________

.

.

Gay elephant

wears expensive

slippers

While the baby elephant

was struggling in Thailand,

Gay, a 40-year-old Asian

elephant in Britain,

was fitted with a pair of

£500 slippers.

Gay has been suffering

from painful abscesses on

her front feet for the past

few months so her keepers

at Paignton Zoo in Devon

decided to commission

the footwear.

.

.

.

.

.