Samut Prakan Livestock Development Office inspected the area’s zoo and crocodile farm after photos on social media showed a thin elephant performing.
Visitors also criticised the crocodile farm’s care.
Manager Uthen Yangprapakorn insisted all the animals there were fed well.
Uthen told reporters that his horses were 15 years old and some crocodiles lived to 80.
“If we hadn’t taken care of them well, they wouldn’t live this long,” he said.
Uthen said the farm had conducted annual health checks on all its five elephants on December 4.
He said the elephant was on a diet to prevent it from becoming fat. Elephants with high body fat were more prone to being in the mating season and often become more aggressive, Uthen said.
By Suthinan Kongsin
The Nation
Reports are coming in of a shooting of a male tourist aged about 35-40.
A corpse was shown in pictures in front of Dunkin Donuts at the Trendy Office Building and Plaza in Soi 13.
Daily News said the shooter was a policeman attached to crime suppression duties at Lumpini police station.
The Thai girlfriend of the tourist was on the scene in tears, they said.
An argument had broken out between the cop and the tourist in Soi 11. After a fist fight the policeman is said to have chased the tourist before shooting him in the head.
The cop is on the run.
Policenews.co.th said that the area of Trendy was sealed off and is now a crime scene.
Lumpini police are investigating and medics and forensics were on the scene.
Thaivisa notes that Trendy is known to many people as a location where applicants can seek UK visas.
More about this as we hear of it.