UPDATE #6: Thank you Pro Elephant Network (PREN) members for writing a very strong, science based letter to the Delhi Zoo about Shankar's condition.

Read the open letter here 

Pro Elephant Network (PREN) is an alliance of elephant experts, elephant behavioural specialists and elephant interest groups. The goal of this alliance is to facilitate a strong social movement that advocates and litigates locally within Africa and globally, to reverse the culture of imprisonment, captive breeding, capture, abuse, exhibition, management, handling, forced interaction, trading and hunting and any exploitation of African elephants (now extended to Asian elephants as well). 

With the backing of PREN's esteemed members with expert knowledge of elephants, Shankar is bound to get justice and will hopefully see better times. THANK YOU PREN for caring so deeply about elephants.