This stray elephant surprised residents of
Rayong’s Klaeng District when she showed up to snack on some sugarcane.
Patcharapol Panrak
A stray elephant surprised residents of Rayong’s Klaeng District when it
showed on the doorstep of a Tungked villager.
The three-ton white female was casually eating sugar cane in the yard
owned by 56-year-old Somwang Thuekum when district officials and Prasert
Sukawita of the Khao Cha Mao National Park Authority showed up Oct. 3.
The pachyderm didn’t seem to mind the crowd of amazed neighbors
watching.
Somwang said she was sitting inside the house when she saw the elephant
cross across her street, trailed by barking dogs. It strolled into her
back yard and made a beeline for the sugar cane.
She said she felt lucky the elephant chose her house, as she believes it
would bring her fortune and prosperity.
Prasert arranged for civil-defense volunteers to help push the elephant
back to Khao Cha Mao by the following night, about 50 kilometers.
There’s no word on whose herd the giant beast got separated from.
