The visitors would call for more as he saluted them, prompted by handlers who poked him with nailed bull hooks to make him perform for the money which lined their pockets.
Around him, animals disappeared from their enclosures, rumoured to be bound for the plates of the wealthy, while his only companion died, allegedly of sepsis brought on by those bull-hook nails digging deep into her skin.
By M Ilyas Khan BBC News, Islamabad image captionKaavan with a caretaker in his enclosure at Marghazar Zoo in June 2016 For decades, the world’s loneliest elephant has entertained crowds from his small, barren patch of land in a Pakistani zoo. The visitors would call for more as he […]
Kaavan, the world’s loneliest elephant, is finally going free
