Memo #4 more elephants.

Hi again! Elephant handlers are called mahouts. The same mahout will work with an animal its entire life. It becomes more like a friendship than a master and animal. Elephants often live be be 100 hundred years old, so most outlive their handlers.
Elephant eat 500 pounds of food per day, and drink 60 gallons of water. They sleep only about four hours a night and can walk for three days without 'taking a rest'.
After the show, one mahout brought his preeteen bull up into the stands. He would lay down and let his charge lay on him, but not to squash. It was fun watching him go down the stairs. The young ones do most of the trumpeting. They are quite playful.


This last photo is not part of the show. These two young ones broke from formation and galloped to the exit. These young mahouts are having a time of it. They got them to stop outside the stadium. After the show another young one made a run for it. His mahout was an old timer and couldn't run after him. I'm sure they met up later.
OKAY! enough. I'm hungry and I'm sure you're bored. Or as my Thai friends ask, "Are you boring"?
Ducklass