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An image of the elephant keeper in India riding his elephant from Tashrih al-aqvam (1825). Samponiet Reserve, Aceh Mahout with a young elephant at Elephant Nature Park, Thailand A young elephant and his mahout, Kerala, India. A mahout is an elephant rider, trainer, or keeper. [1] Mahouts were used since antiquity for both civilian and military use.
Sahi (इकी اکی Ikī; Indian porcupine). In later editions, he was called Ikki. Tha (था تھا Thā, "He was"; Indian elephant) – the first of the elephants according to Hathi. Thuu (थू تھو Thū; Indian cobra), in The King's Ankus – a male blind albino cobra, also called White Hood. Mowgli gives him the derisory epithet ...
The Hindu epic Mahabharata describes two more elephants by the same name – a mythical elephant that was an incarnation of a sage, and the one that belonged to Bhagadatta, the king of Pragjyotisha. Vinayaki is an elephant-headed Hindu goddess, a Matrika. The goddess is generally associated with the elephant-headed god of wisdom, Ganesha.
Indi Raja (c. 1980: Sinhala: ඉන්දි රාජා), also known as Indiraja, is an Indian elephant. [1] Indiraja is a main casket bearer of the Kandy Esala Perahera, an annual religious procession held to pay homage to the Sacred Tooth Relic of Buddha, at the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in which he carried the main casket many times. [2]
An Indian elephant is a megaherbivore and can consume up to 150 kg (330 lb) of plant matter per day; Pictured are wild elephants foraging on open grasslands in Munnar, Kerala Elephant is classified as a megaherbivore and can consume up to 150 kg (330 lb) of plant matter per day. [ 20 ]
The Indian elephant was taken from her herd at age 3 and kept in solitary confinement the entire time, without any other elephants. Reports reveal the elephant had to be put down after months of ...
Ivor the Engine: The elephant [14] Ivor the Engine: The Foxes [15] Ivor the Engine: Ivor's Birthday [16] The Ivor the Engine Annual circa 1978. The London Borough of Hackney Public Libraries banned the entire series because of the Indian elephant keeper, called Bani because "they thought ethnic minorities might be offended by him. [17]
Solomon James joined the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo in 1977, and eventually became the primary keeper and caregiver for Shirley the Elephant.