All the feels! Watch as a herd of Elephants reunite with their caretaker after being apart for over a year.
Chiang Mai province, Northern Thailand (27 December 2021) – A video shared on Twitter showing a caretaker reuniting with a herd of Elephants is going viral and giving everyone all the feels!
The video shows a herd of elephants walking towards a man. The man, identified as Derek Thompson, can be seen standing in a shallow water body as the elephants approach him.
Watch the video below:
Elephants reunite with their caretaker after 14 months..
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— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) December 23, 2021
The video shared by Buitengebieden, a Twitter user from the Netherlands, has garnered over 3 million views, but a Twitter user identified the man as Derek Thompson.
“He left his career as a Toronto firefighter to devote his life to caring for elephants. This is on the sanctuary in Thailand he and his wife Lek started,” the Twitter user commented.
The Elephant Nature Park is a sanctuary and rescue centre for elephants in Mae Taeng District, Chiang Mai Province, Northern Thailand, approximately 60 kilometres from Chiang Mai City, co-founded by Sangduen “Lek” Chailert.
In 2013 Erawan Elephant Retirement Park opened in western Thailand as an offshoot. By 2016 there were branch elephant parks in Surin and in Cambodia, and there were plans to open a fifth park in Phuket. By then, the work was coordinated by the Save the Elephant Foundation. The parks provide sanctuary for rescued elephants and operate under a business model in which tourists pay to visit and help care for the animals and can stay for extended periods.
Free of chains and boundaries, the animals are taken care of their physical and emotional scars by caretakers in the park.
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