Undertoad Friday Apr 27 08:05 AMApril 27, 2007: Elephant hospital in Thailand
The Russian images site ochevidec.net has turned up another set of lovely shots from an elephant hospital. With no information except for "elephant hospital in Thailand". It looks like this set was taken with an artistic eye, rather than to document the place, but nevertheless they are quite interesting.
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Griff Friday Apr 27 08:44 AMThings must be moving forward for the economy in Thailand. If you think about the crazy resources that went into Barbaro, folks have to be pretty productive to sustain what could be considered nonsense, but produces unoticed benefits for veterinary science. Is Thailand producing excess wealth or is this a barebones operation to put the animals back to work?
Bromskloss Friday Apr 27 09:25 AMNo, stay down! You're running your drip backward.
BigV Friday Apr 27 11:52 AMxoB is right: very gray.
Cloud Friday Apr 27 11:59 AMElephants are revered in Thailand, so it makes sense they would have a special hospital for them.
Is that leg amputated? Difficult to see. I thought the first picture showed a trunk cast, but now I'm not so sure.
Clodfobble Friday Apr 27 12:21 PMI thought so too Cloud, but now I think it's just draped over the bar.
barefoot serpent Friday Apr 27 01:44 PMI think that's the trunk... it's the left front leg in the bandages.
Another landmine victim?
xoxoxoBruce Friday Apr 27 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Griff
Things must be moving forward for the economy in Thailand. If you think about the crazy resources that went into Barbaro, folks have to be pretty productive to sustain what could be considered nonsense, but produces unoticed benefits for veterinary science. Is Thailand producing excess wealth or is this a barebones operation to put the animals back to work?
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Friends of Asian Elephants, Elephant Hospital is the Worlds first Elephant hospital project.
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Budget : Approx. 10 Million Baht/Year
Infirmary Units, Resting Unit, Baby Infirmary,
Laboratory approx. 20 million Baht
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1 Thai baht = 0.0307772802 U.S. dollar
National Elephant Institute, under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani, has established a free elephant hospital.
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Because the infirmary of the Institute was too small to cope with all the sick elephants waiting to be treated, funds were donated to build a free public elephants hospital at the Institute. It still lacks equipment and medical supplies, a water treatment system and a crane. This is necessary because sick elephants cannot stand up on their own; a crane is needed to pull them up.
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Sadly it sounds like they have a ways to go.
busterb Friday Apr 27 09:40 PM
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xoxoxoBruce 1 Thai baht = 0.0307772802 U.S. dollar
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Time moves on. One time Thailand was one of the few that didn't play the money market. ! baht was a 5 cents. Just how much money US is the above number?
zippyt Friday Apr 27 09:46 PM1 Thai baht = $0.03ish Us Money
xoxoxoBruce Saturday Apr 28 05:51 PM5 cents to 3 cents is a hefty drop, but better for the elephants when US money comes in.
Gravdigr Sunday Apr 29 08:09 PMHow much morphine does it take to buzz an elephant?
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