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  • Feb. 13th, 2012 at 6:39 PM
The Elephant Orphanage in Pinnawela Sri Lanka

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[info]annelaure wrote:
Feb. 13th, 2012 11:56 pm (UTC)
So many orphans :(

One in the middle of the group doesn't look in such a good shape either :(

I wish I had been at this woman's place !

And what about the markings on the elephants? is this natural? I thought they were either albinos, or drak greay, not that shade of grey/pink?
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[info]korpun wrote:
Feb. 14th, 2012 09:34 am (UTC)
They have about 80-90 elephants, some of them are old, injured or "retired". Probably the place is the best possible for these poor animals. I don't know why some of them had pink colour, could it be old sun burns...
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[info]annelaure wrote:
Feb. 16th, 2012 11:19 am (UTC)
Definitely seems like a good place. And tourism certainly helps with providing for them :)
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[info]bdgrimaldi wrote:
Mar. 5th, 2012 10:26 am (UTC)
So cute !
But why are some of them wearing chains ?

And what is that background sound ? Were you having tea or lunch at the same time ?
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[info]korpun wrote:
Mar. 5th, 2012 09:00 pm (UTC)
There were restaurants... some were eating or having drinks, I focused on elephants - okay, I admit that I had one Lion beer too.

I don't know why they have chains but I assume some elephants are chained time to time to avoid fights
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