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A small pillar or a thin chain can tie an elephant over one thousand kilogram, is that ridiculous? But ridiculous scene like this can be found all around the Thailand. Elephant trainers chained elephants to cement or steel pillar when elephants were little. No matter how little elephants struggled, they couldn’t break loose. Bit by bit, little elephants were used to not struggle, even when they grew up mature elephants and can break the chain easy.
A tiger trainer was supposed to be successful as elephant trainer, he abstained little tiger from eating meal until it grew up. The tiger never taste meal and of course will not hurt people. But the tiger trainer made a fatal mistake, he tumbled and let the tiger lapped up the blood on the ground, the tiger tasted blood and ate the tiger trainer at last.
Little elephants are tied by chain, but mature elephants are tied by habit.
Tiger once was tied by habit while the tiger trainer died of habit (he was used to the gloss that his tiger do not eat people).
What we can learn: habit almost can tie anything but contingency, just as the tiger taste blood by accident.View AllAuthor's latest blogs
Post comment Comment (4 replies)
- Reply ringcao
- the elephant trainer shouldn't be alert? There are also records about elephant going mad.
- Reply lijuanandrea
i never thought about the dangerous of habit not matter it's bad or good. wow I'd better think of my habit, hope I won't be the tiger trainer
- Reply ring_in_love
- lijuanandrea:yes, as we had fire protection last week, we should reject our bad habits in order to away from fire.i never thought about the dangerous of habit not matter it's bad or good. wow I'd better think of my habit, hope I won't be the tiger trainer
- Reply ring_in_love
- ringcao: the elephant trainer shouldn't be alert? There are also records about elephant going mad.it just base on common instance
