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| Thai elephants get potty training: report |
| 2005-01-19 |
| Pictures and everything... BANGKOK (AFP) - Having taught Thailand's elephants to paint, dance and play musical instruments, their Thai handlers are now toilet-training the beasts, media reported. Handlers -- known as mahouts -- have installed giant human-style toilets at a camp in the northern city of Chiang Mai to try to rid the tourist attraction of unsightly droppings, according to the Nation newspaper. Giant toilets for Giant... droppings. Some seven elephants at the privately run camp beside Chiang Mai Zoo are being trained to sit like a human on the giant white toilets, which can be flushed by pulling on a rope with a gentle tug of the trunk, said the daily. And they flush too. I'm just...speechless... It showed a picture of a five-year-old elephant named Diew testing out one of the oversized concrete toilets, which has been fitted with equally jumbo-sized plumbing. The elephants were reportedly rescued from the streets of Bangkok where people were using them to collect money from tourists. Wonder if they leave the seat up? |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #3 Finally, a toilet I can be proud of. |
| Posted by: Al Bundy 2005-01-19 10:42:34 PM |
| #2 When my dad was in high school in Sacramento, the coach got them jobs at the California State Fair. Dad's job was shovelling elephant dung. He said that they can generate A LOT of product. Heh. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-01-19 9:47:42 PM |
| #1 Elephant sewage system should end on Chirac's dinner table. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-01-19 9:35:31 PM |