An elephant being transported in a truck - In the hurry to take elephants from one temple festival scene to another, they are frequently transported in lorries.
There are some mandatory rules for transporting elephants between festival venues. Elephants should not be made to walk for more than 20 km a day or paraded for more than three hours continuously. The trucks in which they were transported should have a minimum length of 12 ft. They should also not be transported for more than 150 km in a day. After six hours in a lorry or truck, the elephants should be allowed to rest for six hours. The rules also speak about maintaining a constant speed While transporting elephants by truck. Breaking these rules will lead to fatal accidents to both elephant and its mahout. Recently, a mahout, was killed and a tusker, Ayyappan, was seriously injured when both were thrown out of an over-speeding lorry in which they were travelling and dragged them together for nearly 200 metres before the vehicle came to a stop at Vamanapuram, near Trivandrum, Kerala. Another incident was a tusker named Kannan broke his tusks while being transported from Guruvayur to Kannur. The incident happened when the lorry in which Kannan was taken had crushed into the rear of a bus. The tusks of the elephant shattered as it penetrated through the steel and wooden cabin.
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