Wild elephant revisits Hua Hin family
Bangkok Post
July 24, 2021
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A family was woken up late on Friday night by a familiar visitor — a jumbo
who had broken into their kitchen a month ago in search of food.
The hungry Phlai Boonchuay smashed a hole into a freshly fixed kitchen wall
and used his trunk to explore leftovers in the kitchen but did not try to
enter it.
House owner Ratchadawan Phuengprasopporn, 29, a resident at Chalerm
Phrakiat Pattana village, posted a five-minute clip on her Facebook account
featuring Phlai Boonchuay surveying the kitchen and grabbing everything he
could.
Pichai Watcharawongpaiboon, director of the Third Conservation Area
Administration Office in Phetchaburi, said on Saturday that a patrol tasked
with pushing wild elephants into the forests had been alerted by Ms
Ratchadawan that Phlai Boonchuay had again raided her kitchen late on
Friday night.
The jumbo had smashed the same wall on June 20 to help himself.
Earlier, officials from the Kaeng Krachan National Park, local officials,
soldiers and officials from the Wildlife Conservation Society Thailand
helped repair the kitchen.
Park officials would fix it again on Monday. Areas around the house would
also be cleared, said Mr Pichai.
Ms Ratchadawan said she and her family members were sleeping when the sound
of fallen objects in the kitchen woke them up. She rushed to check and was
again greeted by Phlai Boonchuay.
The elephant grabbed instant noodles, a pack of flour and a bag of cooking
oil that she put in a food container. Her kitchenware scattered all over
the floor.
She took photos of the incident and tried to to shoo him away before
alerting park officials, she said.
"Phlai" is a Thai title for a male elephant.
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