Sentences with phrase «elephant mahout»
With just 15 tented accommodations — unique in Four Seasons luxury, right down to the hand - hammered copper bathtubs — these all - inclusive three - or four - night adventures cover every detail, from elephant mahout training to Golden Triangle excursions; from formal campfire dinners to riverside drinks in the stilt - top bar.
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Chris Wemmer, director of research at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo in Washington, has seen mahouts in Nepal stabbing their animals» heads with their ankuses (short spears, with a hook on one side) until they run with blood: «It was especially bad when we used the elephants to round up rhinos to put them into reserves.
Working with mahout — Asian elephant trainers — trained elephants at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center in Lampang, the researchers first taught individual animals to pull the rope with their trunks.
Yet in the best - run camps the once - wild elephants go on to establish what is sometimes a beautiful working relationship with their riders, the mahouts — though visitors are warned not to go close, unless the mahout is present.
For now, Wemmer is collecting preliminary data, on the elephants and on the mahouts.
For the time being, he observes, the best and gentlest mahout he knows is a Moslem from Kerala, who directs his old she - elephant, not with an ankus but a small stick, with a rag wrapped around the end to soften the taps.
While his wife, Shirley, takes notes, and onlookers like me, rival mahouts and a hundred villagers gaze on unhelpfully and offer advice, he persuades each mahout to put his elephant through a series of standard tests.
As Thailand's logging industry declined, out - of - work elephants and their mahouts headed for Phuket.
The obligatory three laps, lumbering behind a pace car while perched like a mahout on an elephant is usually something to be endured, rather than enjoyed.
There, the mahouts taught us all about the elephants — their habits, their personalities, and their pasts.
I felt very uncomfortable and sad when the mahouts (people who work with elephants) made a young animal with scars on the top of her head perform silly tricks in a small pen that was covered with barbed wire.
Scheduled at only one place, for just four days, in 2018 BANGKOK, Thailand ---- Elephant polo might in theory stagger on for years or even decades after the four - day 2018 King's Cup Elephant Polo Tournament ---- if the last tournament host, Anantara Hotels & Resorts, remains willing to pour promotional effort into it and mahouts have elephants to -LSB-...]
Watch the elephant enjoy their morning or afternoon bath and than meet our head mahout to learn about the daily life of a Sumatran elephant as the elephant get saddled up for the explorer or adventure treks.
Adventurous Chase cardholders can spend two days and one night as a mahout, or elephant caregiver, at the Elephant Retirement Park in Thailand.
Don your very own mahout hat and interact with majestic elephants in their own habitat.
Don your very own mahout hat and interact with majestic rescued elephants in their own habitat.
Watch the elephants enjoy their morning or afternoon bath and then meet our Head Mahout to learn about the daily life of a Sumatran elephant as the elephants get saddled - up for the «Explorer» or «Adventurer» treks.
Along the shoreline I spotted a trail of asian elephants carrying tourists along the trails with their mahouts guiding them, making for a very exotic vista.
Built on a hillside overlooking the river, this uncommon all - inclusive offers elephant trekking and training with a mahout as one of its activities.
Inclusion: Welcome Drink; air conditioned return transfer in Ubud area; international standard safety equipment; professional & experienced Mahout (Elephant handler) & Chocolate Guide; Set Menu Lunch + one complimentary soft drink; a «herd» of chocolate elephants; tasting — fresh cocoa beans, cocoa nibs, Pod signature chocolates.
He felt like one of those boy mahouts atop the head of a great Asian elephant.