{"id":56806,"date":"2022-12-05T10:27:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T10:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=56806"},"modified":"2022-12-05T10:30:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T10:30:32","slug":"bunks-the-little-asian-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/12\/bunks-the-little-asian-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"Bunks the little Asian Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elephants are social creatures<\/p>\n<p>loving of their mothers<\/p>\n<p>he was born in Tbilisi Zoo<\/p>\n<p>and when \u00a0seven taken away<\/p>\n<p>that would make him<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>very sad<\/p>\n<p>he would miss her \u00a0dreadfully<\/p>\n<p>from Georgia to Yerevan in Armenia<\/p>\n<p>where he<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a solitary Elephant would \u00a0suffer<\/p>\n<p>they swapped him with another<\/p>\n<p>who had dental problems and so<\/p>\n<p>bunka became a solitary<\/p>\n<p>which depressed him as we know<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>animals love each other<\/p>\n<p>families guided by<\/p>\n<p>Their \u00a0mothers<\/p>\n<p>for the wisdom<\/p>\n<p>shared which they apply<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>to life zoo\u2019s are unsociable<\/p>\n<p>prisons in a way<\/p>\n<p>a business to make money<\/p>\n<p>a loathing so to say<\/p>\n<p>freedom not disrespected<\/p>\n<p>a lack of understanding<\/p>\n<p>captivity is desolate<\/p>\n<p>And exceptionally \u00a0demanding<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>no compatibility<\/p>\n<p>no sense of belonging<\/p>\n<p>alignment with one\u2019s mother<\/p>\n<p>dependant<\/p>\n<p>always longing<\/p>\n<p>for mother for her teaching<\/p>\n<p>pliant in a way<\/p>\n<p>servility and subservience<\/p>\n<p>the order of his day<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>no one to fraternise with<\/p>\n<p>he so missed his mama<\/p>\n<p>Keeping his \u00a0own company<\/p>\n<p>he had lost his star<\/p>\n<p>seclusion made him grumpy<\/p>\n<p>solitude made him sad<\/p>\n<p>an introvert an outcast<\/p>\n<p>in his heart he just felt bad<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>morose and misanthropic<\/p>\n<p>distant and aloof<\/p>\n<p>and he\u2019s still there<\/p>\n<p>cloistered \u00a0inside under a roof<\/p>\n<p>really no affection<\/p>\n<p>no closeness none at all<\/p>\n<p>no one spoke his language<\/p>\n<p>acerbity and gall<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>anger and resentment<\/p>\n<p>a smouldering desire<\/p>\n<p>to get into the open<\/p>\n<p>and regain some of his fire.<\/p>\n<p>bunka needs some freedom<\/p>\n<p>needs to breathe fresh air<\/p>\n<p>needs to chomp on greenery<\/p>\n<p>And in \u00a0the water share<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>some \u00a0feelings of his yesteryear<\/p>\n<p>real normality<\/p>\n<p>pay homage and enjoy respect<\/p>\n<p>and really just feel free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elephants are social creatures loving of their mothers he was born in Tbilisi Zoo and when \u00a0seven taken away that would make him &nbsp; very sad he would miss her \u00a0dreadfully from Georgia to Yerevan in Armenia where he &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/12\/bunks-the-little-asian-elephant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,173,97,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-elephants","category-zoos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56809,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56806\/revisions\/56809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}