Nice duds
Sweaters for elephants. That’s right, sweaters for elephants.
Winters get chilly in Northern India, so volunteers at the the Wildlife SOS Elephant Conservation and Care Center decided to knit giant sweaters for its rescued elephants.
It takes around 4 weeks to make one sweater, and it does not come as a surprise knowing that elephants are the largest land mammals on the planet. Still, the volunteers make sure that the knits are not only warm and cozy, they are also colorful , and even fashionable.
I hope they’re also washable, because elephants love coating themselves with dirt.
“It is important to keep our elephants protected from the bitter cold during this extreme winter, as they are weak and vulnerable having suffered so much abuse making them susceptible to ailments such as pneumonia,” cofounder Kartick Satyanarayan said in a release. “The cold also aggravates their arthritis which is a common issue that our rescued elephants have to deal with.” Thank goodness the abuse those sweet babies had to face is in the past, with bright – and stylish – future ahead of them.
They look pretty happy about it.
H/t James
I thought maybe you were being sarcastic, then I looked at the picture and those are in fact the happiest-looking elephants I’ve ever seen.
Ya, no, not sarcastic at all. I’ve worked with elephants, and those phants in the photo look VERY comfortable – loose, relaxed, having a good time, enjoying the presence of the humans. The guy on the left has got to be one of their regular humans, he wouldn’t be standing in that spot otherwise. It looks as if the phant has her trunk curled around his hand, which is a between-friends kind of thing.
I love that the elephants are being cared for. Those giant sweaters are crochet, though, not knitting.
I don’t know why it bothers me that the report didn’t bother to learn the proper feminine art that produced those lovely blankets, but it does.
Stylin’! <3
Love it… They’re so festive!