| India's current rulers, the mahouts to an elephantine state, seem at least to understand this. |
| Later on the custom was abolished because vulgar people tittered and the dignity of the elephants or their mahouts was wounded. |
| The elephants are taught to paint by their mahouts, who give them a paintsoaked brush and guide their trunks over large pieces of paper. |
| The mahouts would have steered pairs of kookies so as to separate a grown elephant from the herd, squeezing in on either side. |
| In the panel were veterinary doctors, elephant owners, mahouts and elephant lovers. |
| Duffillot works closely with the mahouts, the men who guide these enormous mammals weighing several tons through their domestic chores. |
