A constipated elephant had a 50lbs lump of dung pulled from his bottom. <br /><br />The sixty-year-old jumbo, named Boon Peng, was struggling to walk while suffering from abdominal pains at the Mae Sa elephant camp in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand on Tuesday (February 12) night.<br /><br />Vets arrived and diagnosed constipation caused by a combination of slow metabolism, sluggish bowl movements and eating fresh grass that was not part of his diet.<br /><br />Boon Peng's mahout, Kiettisak Kawekan, volunteered for the job of wearing full-length plastic globes to reach inside the elephant's rear and scoop out the vast chunk of faeces.<br /><br />Footage shows how the 50lbs lump of dung was successfully pulled out, allowing the elderly elephant to move freely again.<br /><br />Kiettisak even posed next to it on the ground to show how it was almost twice as big as his own head.<br /><br />Camp manager Anchalee Kalamaphichit said the jumbo had been gorging on fresh grass from a nearby field instead of specially ground up dried grass, which caused the constipation.<br /><br />She said: "We usually feed the elephants with ground grass because it is better for their digestion but the old stubborn jumbo sneaks eating the grass on the field.<br /><br />''A younger elephant could be OK, even though it's not ideal for them. But an older elephant with a slower metabolism with struggle to digest it fully.''<br /><br />She added that the elephant was lucky to have his mahout because scooping out the elephant dung from the behind is not an easy process. <br /><br />She said: "I think the mahout is the only person that the elephant would trust enough to allow to do this.''<br /><br />The vet said that the old jumbo could have become sick if the lump of dung clogging his back passage had had not been removed.
