Twice a day carers in Sri Lanka lead Sak Surin, an elephant donated by Thailand more than 20 years ago, into a custom-made crate, where he stands patiently, training for a special six-hour flight to carry him home and recover his health.
The 29-year-old weighs 4,000 kg and stands nine feet tall, but he suffers from abscesses and a stiff foreleg that makes it tough to walk and stand.
The elephant, known to Sri Lankans as "Muthu Raja", is set to travel on July 1 to the city of Chiang Mai in Thailand's mountainous north and spend two weeks in quarantine. Since he was gifted to Sri Lanka in 2001, the elephant, often used to carry Buddhist relics in processions, has spent most of his time at a Buddhist temple in Kalutara, about 75 km from Colombo, the commercial capital.But he was moved to the zoo last November, after animal welfare activists pushed to remove him from the temple because of his poor health and inadequate facilities.
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