Tears rescued

In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the activists of the charity to rescue wild animals rescued from captivity elderly elephant named Raja. After the rescue of the mistreated him host animal rasplakalos.

The owner Raja (his name not reported) 50 years held the elephant studded shackled, beaten and humiliated him. Every day an elephant was forced to perform on the street in front of passers-bows. His diet consisted handouts from onlookers and found him on the sidewalk musor.

Fate Raja interested zoozaschitniki. It took them a year to get the elephant rescue from captivity. When the activists finally managed to remove the shackles, tramvirovavshie elephant legs, from his eyes tears flowed blagodarnosti.

It turned out that the owner of Raja had no documents on slona.

Life expectancy is 60-70 years, the elephants, the animal is considered to be an adult with 20 years. When it comes to home an elephant, his "work activity" usually lasts from the age of sixteen years, ending on reaching the fortieth anniversary. However, in captivity the animals rarely live to middle age, life expectancy and circus domesticated elephant is approximately 25 years.

Source: lenta.ru/news/2014/07/07/cryingelephant/