Indian hospital helps Asian elephants
Endangered Asian elephants are usually kept in captivity in India, where many face abuse and poor conditions. One center is providing care for a number of the continent's largest land mammals.
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00:20We were doing laser therapy with ginger elephant.
00:24The joints behind it are very weak.
00:28We were doing it to put strength in them and to do good healing.
00:33The problems we see here are mainly weak joints or abnormally deviated joints.
00:44It is due to excessive work or not getting good nutrition.
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01:10A lot of elephants are even poached in order to be abused, exploited and used.
01:14And that's what we do here at Wildlife SOS. We rescue elephants, we rehabilitate them.
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01:33No animal needs to come into our culture.
01:37Their actual role is in the environment, in this nature, in the ecosystem.
01:43So we captured them, disturbed them, separated them from their natural lifestyle and tried to make them our slaves.
01:49And this is very wrong. This should be stopped at all costs.
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