“Hungry and Jobless, Elephants Wander the Streets “
Thursday, 17 July, 2008 by mistifarang
By SETH MYDANS
Published: November 4, 1996
“Jobless and hungry, 18-year-old Dao has fled the parched northeastern province of Surin to become a beggar on the crowded streets of Bangkok. Her story of economic migration is a common one in Thailand today, but Dao belongs to a special subgroup of Bangkok’s homeless population — she is an elephant.”
More about this item you can find in THE NEW YORK TIMES of July 17, 2008:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E0DF1538F937A35752C1A960958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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