3. What is the purpose of this demonstration?
2. He stretches her out and put's a rug on her. The holding of the hook is a bit of "cuteness" that I could never make sense of, the few time's I saw someone do it.
1. Starting from the bottom and going up, he puts a rope around her girth. What is the rope for with all the note's and loops in it?
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Can anybody explain what this chap from the Kyoto Zoo is doing here?
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Wade G. Burck
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I think the 'holding of the hook' is an Asian thing. Every elephant show in Thailand and Cambodia will have a time when the mahout commands the beast to pick the hook up from the ground and hand it to him as he sits on the neck.
I am going to an elephant camp Sunday and am sure to see this.
By the way...elephant dung makes poor fertilizer. I tried it last year and it was almost impossible to break it apart to spread around due to the long, tough grasses in it. I didn't even try to explain what I was doing to the Thais watching me. Dennis
Dennis,
Strange, because you would normally have the reins in your hand, and the spurs on your feet before you mounted.
I had a chap worked for me years ago in the elephant department who was going back to the university to get his degree when the season ended. His thesis was on the "digestibility" of various grains, and the nutritional value to an elephant. Each night he would gather up a box of nice big "balls" and take them to his room, spread out a newspaper, and diligently break them apart with a fork, and count what passed through and what was digested. He first started his "study" on the table in the men's kitchen, as they were trying to eat, but after the first day his co-workers 86ed that idea, and banned him to his room.
Wade
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