THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala elephants will have all privileges in future. Handling of the pachyderm would be scrutinised with the maiden Mahout Training centre coming up in Kerala shortly.

Magaret Whittaker, renowned animal behaviourist, spent three days with mahouts at Bannerghatta park to deliver this message — win elephants over with love For an animal that is long on memory and ...

Elephants never forget, the saying goes, and NASA employee Serena Sage hopes that she won't, either ... She wants to remember every detail of an exotic vacation that brought her face to face with the ...

The establishment of the proposed elephant rehabilitation centre at Kottoor is likely to enable the Forest Department to make training mandatory for mahouts in the State. The lack of a dedicated ...

Asian elephants are endangered, but remarkably, around one third of the remaining 45,000 Asian elephants in the world live in semi-captive conditions, cared for by handlers known as mahouts. Expert ...

I clench the mahout’s hand as I step into the crook and begin my ascent. Two more mahouts, who have been tending to other animals and riders in this jungle clearing in northern Thailand, come to my ...