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…and elephants, oh my!
October 28, 2008, 7:36 pm
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I just spent a weekend in a working elephant camp. Domesticated elephants are controlled using entirely verbal commands. We saw a tethered young bull elephant who was getting quite agitated  -  a dog was teasing it from just out of reach. One of the mahouts (trainers – one mahout works with one elephant) UNCHAINED the agitated young bull elephant and climbed up – he told the bull to leave and HE DID. He turned back once to look at the dog – clearly wanting to go stomp on him – but the mahout said no so he didn’t. The mahout didn’t even break a sweat – he was smoking a cigarette on top of this angry elephant, TELLING HIM NOT TO DO SOMETHING. It was amazing.

 
Also I thought that the elephant painting was a bit bogus – that the trainer probably did most of it. But all the mahout does is choose the colour and then he hands the paintbrush to the elephant. The elephant does the painting, and it’s pretty obvious usually what they are trying to paint. The elephants painting in the picture below are only 7 and 8 years old, so their painting look childish, but I saw painting OF OTHER ELEPHANTS, some with their mahouts. Pretty amazing.
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And I can’t control my 10lb dogs.

I resent everything about this.

Comment by Ben October 28, 2008 @ 8:43 pm

I was going to make a similar comment about my 30 pound puppy.

I feel like less of a man

Comment by Jenn March 24, 2009 @ 2:34 am

I want a pet elephant.

Comment by Lauren March 29, 2009 @ 5:53 am


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