Taiwan theme park drops plans to lift elephant with human hair

Taiwanese theme park has dropped a plan to use braids of 320,000 pieces of human hair to lift an elephant, abandoning its attempt to create a new Guinness World Record.

A United Daily News report said the decision was made after criticism the act could scare the animal.

The Naughty Boy Theme Park had planned to tie the human hair into a sling device and attach it to a crane to lift a 6-ton elephant to mark the opening of a wildlife zoo, the paper said.

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