Terrifying Elephant Roar

Phuki is a rescued Asian Elephant from Thailand’s logging industry, and now resides in Chiang Rai, Thailand. With chronic abscesses, arthritis, and a poorly healed broken ankle from his logging years, leg treatment is done every day to reduce the pain. Since Phuki is in musth, he can get agitated during these procedures, as evident in the video from his roar. Elephants will tuck their trunks in their mouths in order to calm down, so Phuki’s mahout attempts to calm him down by touching his upper palate.