Staffers at an elephant enclosure in Thailand have painted several pachyderms to resemble giant pandas to mock their country’s obsession with the black-and-white bamboo-eaters, the Bangkok Post is reporting.
A Thailand zoo recently laid out $20 million to house a newborn female panda and her family. The move irked staffers at the Ayutthaya Elephant Kraal, who say such attention diverts resources from the country’s symbolic mammal, the elephant.
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Pandas are cute, I suppose, but elephants deserve attention too. I mean, has anyone ever been accused of ignoring the panda in the room?
I just hope none of the painted elephants begins to think it’s a panda. Because getting an elephant out of a tree is a delicate operation.
