People Are Making Huge Sweaters To Protect Elephants From The Cold

It takes four weeks to make just one sweater by hand

Remember once that awe-inspiring man knit a full bunch of small sweaters for penguins convalescent when AN oil spill? this is often type of like that, however a great deal … larger.

 Staff at the life SOS Elephant Conservation and Care Center within the northern Indian town of Mathura are operating along to handmake extra-large sweaters for the pachyderms in their care, in lightweight of this winter’s severely weather condition. Making one amongst the large sweaters takes four weeks, therefore solely 3 elephants have them thus far, life SOS co-founder Kartick Satyanarayan told The Dodo. within the in the meantime, the remainder square measure creating do with large blankets.

 The center cares for twenty elephants, reclaimed from life traffickers, abusive circuses and alternative harmful circumstances. In some cases, elephants United Nations agency have suffered cruelty square measure a lot of susceptible to the cold, Satyanarayan aforementioned in an exceedingly statement. “It is very important to stay our elephants shielded from the bitter cold throughout this extreme winter, as they're weak and vulnerable having suffered most abuse creating them liable to ailments like respiratory disease,” he said. Satyanarayan additional that a lot of of the elephants conjointly suffer from inflammatory disease, which might be aggravated by the cold. 

The weather at the middle is “comparatively sunny throughout the daytime,” however the temperatures drop considerably in the dark, voice Arinita Sandilya told The Huffington Post in AN email.

 That, additionally to the physical labor attached caring for elephants, is why the individuals within the photos square measure carrying T-shirts

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