| The hotel manager called in the police to put a stop to the ruckus and detained the mahout for causing extensive damage to hotel property. |
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| Initially, the mahout guides the elephant's trunk over the canvas and offers rewards for good performance. |
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| Every mahout and kavadi would be with the elephant to keep it in good humour, the Warden added. |
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| They learn that when a new young elephant is being trained, the mahout will not bathe for a week, so that the beast will remember his body odor. |
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| Below him stands the image of Salim Kumar, the mahout, with his trademark grin and the elephant goad. |
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| But after the felling of a sandalwood tree inside the GNP, the authorities have decided not to allow the mahout and the animal into the park. |
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| He left Cartagena, Spain, in 218 bce with 37 elephAfrican Aforest forelephantsands and one Asian each under its own well-trained mahout. |
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| Sasi, the animal's current first mahout, was resting under a peepal tree with a half-dozen of his colleagues. |
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| On this first day, the mahout wanted to spare his elephant who had walked for two days in order to get there. |
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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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| The mahout rides on the elephant's neck and uses leg pressure and a thotti, a special implement to guide the elephant. |
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| The mahout directs the elephant using his voice, hands, feet or a goad. |
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| The mahout riding the lead elephant, armed with a shotgun, was fuelled with local firewater. |
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| Course content includes learning basic commands, how to drive an elephant, the bathing and daily care of an elephant, the feeding requirements and the lifestyle of a mahout. |
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| Commanded by its mahout, the elephant was once basic to Southeast Asian logging operations. |
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| Share the experience of a lifetime with your own elephant. Learn some forest tricks from your experienced mahout, in nature immaculate. |
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| Early in the morning, you will follow your mahout into the forest to pick up your elephant and get it ready. |
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| When physical resistance comes to an end, the trainer and the mahout take turns in constantly staying with the animal and speaking to it. |
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| As the life expectancy of a man and an elephant are more or less equal, a young mahout is usually chosen to train and raise a young animal. |
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| In the photo, one of three ways for the mahout to mount on the back of his elephant. |
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| He also won awards for Man and Elephant, the love story of a mahout and an elephant, which was been shown on 100 television channels internationally. |
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| The mahout bowed to the Goddess, hands arched in the gesture of namaskar, then began circling the shrine followed by the cymbal-clashers and the trumpet blowers. |
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| As two other domesticated elephants approach from the opposite side, the mahout throws a lasso around the neck of the wild animal. |
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| The mahout seemed relaxed, lost in thought. |
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| The mahout must be able to recognise the onset of musth in an animal. |
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| One, a mahout, or tender, straddled the neck to guide the creature. |
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| The mahout used his feet and an ankhus to direct the elephant, as his voice might not be heard in the din of combat. |
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| Jahan becomes the elephant's mahout or tamer, and the animal quickly curries favour in the Sultan's court, being used for everything from street entertainment to battles. |
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| Employment in ethical tourism ventures will create work that is less physically demanding, ecologically sound and provide sustainable incomes for mahout families living and working with elephants. |
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| Serenity at the Kanam Estate, Kerala Prize for the best on-site attraction goes to the Kanam Estate, where guests can spend a day with resident elephant Laxmi and his mahout. |
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