VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

CHAINING OF ELEPHANT

• Animal ethics related issues are to be taken care of while using such physical restraint measures in case of elephants. However, it appears better to pad the chains that are used for physical restraint of the elephants.
• This helps a lot in minimsing the probabilities of injuries on the limbs of elephants to a greater extent.
• You have to understand that skin related wounds may take comparatively a long time for a better healing because of poor circulation of blood in skin of elephants.