Educational experience marred by overuse of electrical baton on elephants making them cry out!
Elephant Transit Home (ETH)的点评
点评:After reading several reviews of elephant orphanages and the bad press of “Pinnawala”I wanted to visit a place that was less touristy and had more of the animals welfare at the forefront.The ETH facility is set up very well to educate the visitors and you can tell that money has been invested to encourage people to visit but that’s it really.I could see the elephants were getting frustrated at being penned up against a gate prior to feeding time (which was running late)and I was not impressed with the overuse of the electrical baton by one particular keeper to maintain control up to the milk feeding station causing the calve to moan loudly.It raises the question as to whether these elephants are rehabilitated to go back into the wild or it’s just a tourist attraction as there’s no info or stats on release figures anywhere.I think one day the elephants will turn on the keepers as they never forget!
翻译:在阅读了几篇关于大象孤儿院的评论和“品纳维拉”的负面报道后,我想去一个游客较少、更注重动物福利的地方。ETH 的设施设置得很好,可以教育游客,你可以看出他们已经投入了资金来鼓励人们参观,但事实就是这样。我可以看到大象在喂食时间(已经很晚了)之前被关在大门边,感到很沮丧,而且我对一位饲养员在牛奶喂食站前过度使用电棍来维持控制,导致小象大声呻吟感到很不满意。这引发了一个问题:这些大象是否已经康复并回归野外?或者这仅仅是一个旅游景点,因为没有任何地方关于释放数字的信息或统计数据。我想有一天,大象会攻击饲养员,因为它们永远不会忘记!