11zoofan 2 months ago
"The explanation offered above by 11zoofan doesn't make sense. First the liberties taken with the term "trainers". Second, the elephant seem's to be awful focused on the green "cage/shift chute" and the people inside it. Third, if she is upset at being "left out" why would she need to be calmed down before allowing her back in with the others. Surely she would not try to hurt the others, after being "upset at being left out." There is a lot more aggressive behavior, head butting, head standing shoving logs, kicking at "invisible" objects, etc exhibited here then fear/apprehension at being left out side. I wonder if it was the first time they were going to try to work on Gina's feet by letting two inside first?"
"The explanation offered above by 11zoofan doesn't make sense. First the liberties taken with the term "trainers". Second, the elephant seem's to be awful focused on the green "cage/shift chute" and the people inside it. Third, if she is upset at being "left out" why would she need to be calmed down before allowing her back in with the others. Surely she would not try to hurt the others, after being "upset at being left out." There is a lot more aggressive behavior, head butting, head standing shoving logs, kicking at "invisible" objects, etc exhibited here then fear/apprehension at being left out side. I wonder if it was the first time they were going to try to work on Gina's feet by letting two inside first?"
Posts
Actually what happened is this: The trainers brought two of the three pachyderms in first, the trainers where going to give this one-Gina, a foot trim. Gina is upset because she thought she was going to be left out and she wanted to go inside. Now she is upset. The trainers are standing inside the green gates, giving her voice commands trying to get her to calm down before they allow her inside with the other three.