Comments on: Thailand’s Animal Kingdom

By: Jacob Liten

Jacob Liten — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:13:19 +0000

It is sad to see animals exploited in ways but so fascinating to see these creatures upfront. I keep snakes and feed them well and give them quit an exotic large aquarium with live plants and nice hiding spaces.

Keep up the work on the nice blog!

By: steff

steff — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:51:09 +0000

I agree it is not nice to see…but to clear up a few things. the “crying babies” are often illegal immigrants that resort to begging to survive. The “bubblegum and light sticks kids” are part of a group that most of the kids parents live up-country or cambodia and they are looked after by a relative usually about 10 kids to a ring very seldom their parents are present.

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By: Talen

Talen — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:43:02 +0000

Other than baby elephants I’ve seen a couple of orangutans and one huge ass lizard being touted in Bangkok. Last time I was in Bangkok though I didn’t even see an elephant.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:50:26 +0000

Other than the elephants you mentioned I havn’t seen any other animals being touted in Bangkok. Phuket on the other hand is a traveling zoo.

Everything from snakes, sea eagles and lizards are often seen in the bars there. I have seen primates in the past as well but these are rare as even some Thai people disagree with this type of trade and don’t allow them in the bars.

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By: Talen

Talen — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:40:59 +0000

Carole, Thanks for the kind words.

The animals are bad enough but there are those that hawk their children around too. They will bring a crying baby up to you so you feel bad and give them money…sometimes the baby doesn’t even belong to them.

They also get their cute kids to run around selling gum and light sticks.

By: Carole

Carole — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:14:45 +0000

I had no idea of how people would use animals like that to make money, especially on the streets. Fascinating, but sad.
Really interesting blog you have here, btw – keep up the great work, love all the pictures!

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By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:22:56 +0000

Wow, it must be really fun to be able to get so up and close to the animals like that. Reminds me of the streets of India. See a lot of animals just walking around from really big to really small (rodents…ahh!)

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