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Spanish Tourist Death In Thailand Raises Concerns Over Activities Involving Animal-Human Proximity

The killing of 🃏a Spanish girl by an elephant while she wasౠ bathing the animal in Thailand’s Koh Yao Elephant Care Center has raised concerns over the effects of such interactive activities, on animals and humans alike 

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The recent incident of a Spanish woman gored to death by an elephant at the Koh Yao Elephant Care Center in Southern Thailand has gathered eyeballs on the internet. The twenty-two-year-old  Blanca Ojanguren Garcia was on a Thailand trip with her boyfriend. Garcia was attacked by the pachyderm while the couple was participating in an elephant bathinꦅg experience at the Center on January 3. The experience, which is a major tourist attraction in the Southeast Asian country of Thailand, is known to have alarmed the 💛elephant and led to the fatality. 

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