NAKHON RATCHASIMA — The man who who captured a tense pachyderm-on-motorcyclist encounter on video said Khao Yai National Park should ban big bikes as they are responsible for upsetting the park’s more important residents.
After his video of a cornered biker escaping death-by-angry-elephant with a wai and a prayer went viral, cameraman Andy Merk said a group of four riders on large, loud motorcycles were responsible for irritating the elephants, which nearly took out their frustration on another unlucky rider who just happened to come along on a smaller motorcycle.
“Big bikes are a serious problem in Khao Yai National Park; they are there for racing, not for nature,” Merk wrote on his Khao Yai News website today. “No other park in Thailand allows big bikes in, and in other countries they are banned as well.”