Mahout
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Mahout
by Emma BrownA mahout bathes his elephant at sunset
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Mahout on his elephant emerging from the aptly called elephant grass whilst on the look-out for tigers early one morning. / / (Bandhavgarh National Park – India) / / >< / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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After our early morning elephant ride, to try and see tigers, I noticed that one of the elephants liked to hold his trunk over his tusk. Thought it may make a nice shot. / / (Bandhavgarh National Park – India) / / >< / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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In a narrow clearing between trees and vines of a Thai jungle on Phuket Island, our elephant’s mahout returned to his preferred seating position on his charge’s neck, climbing from the ground via its suportive trunk. His beaming smile said it all – the Thais are a kind and friendly people. Keith. / CARD / FRAMED / POSTER
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Details of the complete series are here. / Elephant Series #04 Carrying Their Mahouts / The trust between mahout and elephant is so strong, the elephants may be seen carrying them around the waist, sitting on neck and trunk, and standing on tusks. We even saw one elephant massage her mahout’s back with her foot, as he lay face-down on the ground. At one stage I was supported by two elephants on their joined trunks. I felt so impressed! / Asian Elephants / Order: Proboscidea Family: Elephantidae Genus and Species: Elephas maximus / Giant herbivores, Asian elephants can tear down huge tree limbs or pick up small objects with their muscular trunks. / Physical Description: Asian elephants are huge gray animals inhabiting Asian tropical forests. Their gray coloration conceals them in their shady habitat. Elephants’ trunks, unique among living mammals, are versatile, enabling them to reach the ground, manipulate tiny objects or tear down huge tree limbs, squirt water over their backs or into their mouths, or blow dirt onto their backs during dust baths. Female Asian elephants usually lack visible tusks as do males in some populations, such as those in northeast India. Wide, padded feet enable them to walk quietly. Large, flappable ears help these huge animals cool off, although elephants often must retreat to the shade or water during the hottest part of the day. / Domesticated Asian elephants—strong, social, and intelligent—have been trained for thousands of years for use in transportation, labor, and ritual. / Wild Asian elephants inhabit a variety of tropical forest habitats from moist, evergreen lowland forest to dry semi-deciduous teak forests to cooler mountain forests up to 10,000 feet. They also frequent adjacent grasslands and farm areas. Their varied diet enables them to live in disturbed forests as long as they have plenty of space to move around and exploit different foods without coming into conflict with people. / Reference: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/AsianElephants/factasianelephant.cfm CARD: / FRAMED:
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Mitzi the elephant tries on her new Mahout String Jungleware. :) I have recently joined the Elephant group ( that doesn’t sound right even as I type it :)) and as I don’t have too many ele paintings I thought a little fun might be in order.
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Endangered species do what they can to save themselves. Some attempts may be misguided and counter-productive, but every little helps :)
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Jaipur, Rajasthan
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Jaipur, India
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Jaipur, India
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Featured in Elegant Elephants in January 2009. Top 10 finalist in Black and White Challenge in Elegant Elephants in January 2009. I saw this mahout with his elephant one day when I was heading for an end-of-the-day coffee at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Phnom Penh. They proceeded down the main street bordering the Tonle Sap with no trouble at all from the surrounding cars, tuk-tuks and cyclists. All proceeds from the sale of this work go to the Elephant Conservation Park, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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Rajasthan / India / Courtsey: Rajasthan State Goverment
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WILD & FREE / / Indian elephant close-up. / / (Bandhavgarh National Park – India) / / /
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I photographed this wonderful animal somewhere not too far from Pattaya, Thailand.
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Chiang Mai, Thailand. While elephants are now obsolete for moving logs, they still train at schools, but today, they only perform for tourists.
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A mahout rides his elephant in a Lua village in northern Thailand. The Lua, the original people of Thailand, once lived in thousands of villages across the hills, but about 500 years ago most of them fled, leaving only a handfull of villages west of Chiang Mai. The Lua and the Karen once captured wild elephants and domesticated them to help drag logs and carry rice from their fields.
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everybody get out of the way. Oops… somebody left his footwear behind… not me. Shot with Canon DSLR Shot at Dubbare Elephant camp, Coorg, Karnataka.
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Before logging was banned nationwide more than a decade ago, hundreds of elephants were used in Thailand to haul logs, legally and illegally, from the dwindling primary forests. Most of the mahouts were ethnic Karen hilltribe men from northern Thailand, and in the north the most valued timber was teak. This young elephant in Mae Hong Son provinces drags and shoves teak logs.. The Karen mahout holds a sharp knife which he jabs into the top of the elephant’s head if it disobeys his instructions in Karen language. Many mahouts have lost their lives, particularly when bulls are musking. A liquid hormone secretes from their forehead into their eyes which drives them ‘crazy’. Owners usually chain them to a big tree to prevent them from running amok. This photograph was taken in the early 1980’s with nikon camera and kodachrome film.
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Shot at Dubare Elephant camp, near Mysore, Karnataka.
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Shot taken at Dubare Elephant Training camp. / A log cabin being built by elephant. The elephant was pushing the logs through the slots. Click to see Closer view here: Featured in Authentic India in Aug 2009.
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Dalat, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam. A young French couple take an elephant ride in Press National Park.
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Shot at Dubare Elephant training camp, near Mysore. / Shot with Canon DSLR. As is. This tame elephant was trying to pass the log between two logs of a cabin. After one log was fixed, it would pick up one more and fix it in the next slot. Like human beings, elephants are either left tusked or right tusked. And the dominant tusk is usually shorter of the two. Seeing the tusks of the elephant I could not make out whether it was right tusked or left tusked, but from the way it was pushing the logs from right to left, I felt this elephant was left tusked. The entire weight of the log seemed to be on the left tusk. What do you think? Click to see the scenario here:
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Shot at Dubare Elephant training camp, near Mysore, Karnataka.
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A mahout is a person who drives an elephant. The word mahout comes from the Hindi words mahaut and mahavat, derivatives of the Sanskrit word mahamatra, meaning “[one] having great measure Usually, a mahout starts as a boy in the ‘family business’ when he is assigned an elephant early in its life and they would be attached to each other throughout the elephant’s life. The most common tool used by mahouts is a goud called anlius, or Aṅkuśa – a sharp hook used to guide a tamed elephant by prodding on the back of its head. Sanskrit language distinguishes three types: Reghawaan, who use love to control their elephants, Yuktimaan, who use ingenuity to outsmart them and Balwaan, those who control elephants with strength and cruelty When I visited some elephants in India I was told that these great beasts have a special relationship which is mainly based on love (reciprical) and a small amount of discipline Apparently there are 30,000 wild and 20,000 domesticated elephants in India. If one is captive it will die early, just like humans, from heart related conditions due to lack of excercise. These elephants that we visited fulfill a very special role: they are kept for breeding and tourism and the rest of the week they are free to roam free in the forest. Taken with Nikon D90 using 105mm lens
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