| The elephants are taught to paint by their mahouts, who give them a paintsoaked brush and guide their trunks over large pieces of paper. |
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| Included in the project were health check-ups for the elephants and safety training for mahouts and proprietors. |
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| Displaying their talents, these giants will perform shows such trunk painting and a mock elephant battle ridden by mahouts. |
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| Later on the custom was abolished because vulgar people tittered and the dignity of the elephants or their mahouts was wounded. |
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| The drum beat gets faster and faster, the elephants are hoovering food, and the blue-suited mahouts whirl in the rain like dervishes. |
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| In the panel were veterinary doctors, elephant owners, mahouts and elephant lovers. |
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| Working elephants become less obedient and respectful to their mahouts and harder to control. |
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| The mahout, or elephant keeper, is usually from a family line of mahouts that have amassed knowledge about these animals over the centuries. |
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| India's current rulers, the mahouts to an elephantine state, seem at least to understand this. |
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| The mahouts would have steered pairs of kookies so as to separate a grown elephant from the herd, squeezing in on either side. |
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| The mayor explained to the mahouts who cooperated well that the elephants would be sent to Pattaya Elephant Village for a period not exceeding three months. |
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| Duffillot works closely with the mahouts, the men who guide these enormous mammals weighing several tons through their domestic chores. |
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| This unit visits remote rural areas to meet the mahouts and provide care for their elephants. |
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| The mahouts guide their elephants in the river for them to take a bath. |
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| She was a tomboy who liked to keep company with the servants, worrying about their wages, and with the mahouts, learning their songs and stories of elephants. |
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| Rest assured your donation of ยค60 will greatly improve the health of a domesticated elephant in Laos, as well as capacity build the knowledge of elephant owners and mahouts. |
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| Nobody can claim to really understand elephants without growing up with them: future mahouts all play with elephant calves before they can even speak. |
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| The principle of this programme is to invite veteran mahouts to share their knowledge with trainees over a period of a few weeks or several years and through practical work with elephants. |
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| Although some new jobs are promised, little money is available for either proposal. For now, the mahouts have agreed to stay out of Bangkok while homes for their animals are found. |
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| The objective is to improve the medical condition of the domestic elephants of the country by providing an technical assistance to the veterinary surgeons and to the Lao mahouts. |
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| The festival's schedule of events showcases the lifestyle of mahouts, as well as giving everyone the opportunity to discover or rediscover the animal emblem of Laos. |
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| Mahouts and sometimes, veterinary doctor have to accompany the jumbos if they are given on hire for long hours. |
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