Your morning adorable: Elephants canoodle at new Thai elephant retirement home

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Thailand’s new Pang La Elephant Rehabilitation Center officially opened over the weekend, becoming the first facility of its kind in the country known for its love affair with elephants.

The center, in Thailand’s Lampang province, plans to care for up to 200 elderly and disabled Asian elephants; currently, about 30 elephants call it home, including several that are partially or completely blind, according to the Bangkok Post. It’s staffed by veterinarians and mahouts and run by Thailand’s Forest Industry Organization.

Pang La will care for elephant residents, like the two elderly pachyderms above, ‘until their last breath,’ Forest Industry Organization chief Manoonsak Tantiwiwat told the Bangkok Post.

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-- Lindsay Barnett