< > D17 - Practical Elephant Management - A Handbook for Mahouts

Author(s) /Editors Nibha Namboodiri (Compiler and Editor)
Publishing Organisation Zoo Outreach Organisation - CBSG-India
Date most recently updated 1998
ISSN (Or other code, if issued) India publication no. OP20

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CONTENTS (If available - Descriptions / Protocols / Text Sections)  within Wildpro

Section I -- Introduction

  • Elephant Facts
  • Significance of Various Internal and External Organs
  • Evolutionary History and Subspecies

Section II -- Health

  • Signs of Health
  • Common Ailments
  • Diseases in Captive Elephants
  • Colic
  • Impaction
  • Sick and Injured Elephants: Care and Cure
  • Health Care of Departmental Elephants

Section III -- Management

  • A Traditional Perspective on Elephant Management
  • Traditional Knowledge on Elephants
  • Management Practices in Kerala
  • Elephant Management in Tamil Nadu Forest Department
  • Elephants in captivity: Some Experiences from North Bengal
  • Elephant Management in Kerala Forest Department
  • Care of Pregnant Cow Elephants
  • Care of Elephant Calves
  • Handrearing and training of an Elephant Calf
  • Bathing an Elephant
  • Elephant Food and Fodder
  • Timber Elephants in Kerala
  • Transportation of Elephants

Section IV -- Musth

  • Musth in Captive Elephants
  • Handling Musth Elephants
  • Tranquillisation

Section V -- Handling

  • Handling of Elephants
  • Significance of Sensitive Points
  • Sensitive Regions
  • Practical Aspects of Elephant Handling
  • Practical Pointers
  • Animal Psychology as Applied to Training
  • Training Elephants at Elephant Camps

Section VI -- Wild Elephants and Capture

  • Wildlife Protection Act
  • Life of Wild Elephants
  • Man-Elephant Conflict - Case Study in North Bengal
  • Elephant Capture and Training in Kerala Forest Department
  • Elephant Capturing in North-east India

Section VII -- Miscellaneous facts

  • Elephant Trade in India
  • Purchasing Elephants - Tricks of the Trade
  • Auspicious and Inauspicious Signs
  • The Image and Profession of Mahouts in North-eastern India
  • Evolution of Elephants - the Mythological Story

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