Sleep (Elephant) baby, sleep.
The Elephant Nature Park in Mae Taeng District of Chiang Mai province cares for mistreated elephants, many of them old, some of them blind.
Sangduen "Lek" Chailert, chair of the Chiang Mai-based Save Elephant Foundation, has worked with these elephants for many years and she quickly realised that most of them suffered from psychological problems.
About a decade ago, Ms Sangduen started singing to them to soothe them. She recalled that one young elephant who was rescued from a local show operator always threw rocks at people who tried to get close to her. So she tried to get close to her by singing different styles of songs.
In the beginning she was also welcomed with stones, but later when she sang “Tai Rom Malulee”, a song Ms Sangduen’s mother regularly sang to her as a child, she found it calmed the elephant down.
Recently, a video clip was made of Ms Sangduen singing the same lullaby to a baby elephant who quickly went into a deep, content sleep. The video was uploaded to YouTube on June 11 and it took little more than a week for it to attract