Thailand elephant is the national animal of Thailand. It is important to Buddhism. And Thailand has had. Flag stamp with elephant pattern. If spoken to in the past. Elephant are very important in the field of battle. This makes the war elephants. And Thailand is also popular in the galaxy. The elephant of the king. Which looks very beautiful. It is rare to encounter an elephant is the vehicle of General. This is the battle on the bake of an elephant called Iuthheete.
Elephant have been revered in Thailand for many centuries. Famous as the strongest beasts of burden, in Thailand they were important in battle, with kings mounted on Elephants fighting the Burmese to defend Thailand on many occasions. They have also been noted for their intelligence, memory and pleasant nature. A Thai legend has it that a marriage is like an elephant the has band is the front legs, that choose the direction, the wife the back legs, providing the power!
A white elephant is even included in the flag of the Royal Thai navy< and the “order of the white elephant” is one of the highest honors, bestowed by the king. White elephant, in fact are very rarely completely white. The skin has to be very pale in certain areas to quality as a “white elephant”
In the past, wild elephants were caught and trained. The city of Mae Hong Sorn was founded as a stockade for newly caught elephants, since that region has a high elephant population. This is century, the number of elephants have declined so rapidly that the entire domesticated stock are one or more generation from their wild forebears. There are still a few thousand wild elephants in northern Thailand, in remote jungle south west of Chaiangmai.
The Forestry Department uses trained elephants to extract illegal stores of teak long, which poachers keep in remote area where the use of vehicles would be impossible. Most elephants nowadays however are used to carry tourists around probably easier and more pleasant work than dragging heavy logs!
There are two main species of elephant in the world. The African Elephant Loxodonta, which is larger with bigger ears and a less docile nature. The ears help the animal to lose heat on the sunny open country it inhabits in Africa. The Indian elephant, Elephants are a native of thick forest, so is smaller with much smaller ears. There have also been reports of pygmy elephants in South East Asia, only 1.5 meters tall, but these are probably extinct. The Indian elephant is 3 meters from the ground to the highest point of the shoulder. They weigh about four tons, and need 250 kgs of food a day and 60 gallons of water. They are vegetarians, eating a wide variety of plants. In Thailand, their favorite food is tamarind but as anyone who has been to an elephant camp knows, they seem to love bananas and sugar cane. Both sexes have tusks, although they are far larger in the male. Some males do not grow tusks, and are supposed by better workers.