The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
author：The flying fart in the air
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
It may be the last war elephant in the world;
It is probably the world's longest-lived zoo elephant;
But it is definitely the most legendary elephant in the history of the anti-Japanese resistance;
This elephant is called [Lin Wang], and it is a male [Asian elephant Elephas maximus]
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
Since I learned about Lin Wang's background at the Taipei Zoo, I don't think it's an exaggeration to make it into a documentary!
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
In 1917, Lin Wang was born in British Burma, when it was used as a forest logging yard to carry animal power elephants, its fate turned in about 1942 when the Japanese army occupied Burma, the Japanese selected more than a dozen animal power elephants to pull the cannon, and in 1943, the 38th Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force commanded by Sun Liren defeated the Japanese army and captured these elephants, including Lin Wang! , it followed the Chinese expeditionary force to the south and north, and undertook the heavy task until the Japanese army was driven out of the Southeast Asian battlefield!
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
After the war, Sun Liren sent Lin Wang to the island of Taiwan, where he was responsible for the propaganda of anti-Japanese history, and has been living in the Taipei Zoo ever since. Lin Wang was originally called "Ah Mei / Ah Mei", and the zoo was renamed "Lin Wang" (King of the Forest) by Sun Liren, but because the reporter misheard, it was written as "Lin Wang", so it has its current name~
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
▲ Lin Wang and General Sun Liren
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
▲1953General Sun Liren accompanied "Friends of China" U.S. Senator Nolan to visit "Lin Wang"
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
▲ Yin Chun, a retired soldier who captured Lin Wang from the Japanese army, still returned to the zoo to stare at his old comrades-in-arms (Photo source: Taiwan Panorama)
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
Lin Wang has a girlfriend "Ma Lan" who is 30 years younger than him in the zoo, and the two elephants are very affectionate and inseparable...... The two of them became the "check-in mecca" for young couples at the Taipei Zoo at that time.
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
However, Lin Wang was diagnosed with intestinal tumors at the age of 50 (1967), when the technology of medical elephants was limited, and the tumor could only be removed by tying up five flowers......
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
After Ma Lan's death in November 2002, Lin Wang stared at the animal pen in a daze almost every day, and his movements were sluggish, and three months later (February 26, 2003), everyone found Lin Wang lying on the edge of the pool, and he also went with Ma Lan...... He was 86 years old
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
The last war elephant in human history, it drove the Japanese army out of the Southeast Asian battlefield with the Anti-Japanese Expeditionary Force
Almost everyone in Taipei knows the elephants Lin Wang and Ma Lan, and calls them "Grandpa Lin Wang and Grandma Ma Lan", after which Lin Wang was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Taipei, and its specimen has been standing in the Taipei Zoo
