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Howdahs on the elephants of the Maharaja of Travancore.May 1841. Elephant with howdah. A howdah, or houdah (Hindi: हौदा, romanized: haudā), derived from the Arabic هودج (hawdaj), which means "bed carried by a camel", also known as hathi howdah (hāthī haudā, हाथी हौदा), is a carriage which is positioned on the back of an elephant, or occasionally some other ...
Modified triggers include pans and bait sticks. The trap is designed to close on the neck and/or torso of an animal. When it closes on the neck, it closes the trachea and the blood vessels to the brain, and often fractures the spinal column; the animal loses consciousness within a few seconds and dies soon thereafter.
Hunt seat or Hunter classes judge the movement and the form of horses suitable for work over fences. A typical show hunter division would include classes over fences as well as "Hunter under Saddle" or "flat" classes (sometimes called "hack" classes), in which the horse is judged on its performance, manners and movement without having to jump ...
The English hunting saddle The saddle eventually branched off into different designs that became the modern English and Western saddles. One variant of the English saddle was developed by François Robinchon de la Guérinière , a French riding master and author of "Ecole de Cavalerie" who made major contributions to what today is known as ...
Fig. 6. Antique steel hook used by elephant riders of the Mughal Empire Mahout washing his elephant. Temple in Kanchipuram. The most common tools used by mahouts are chains and the aṅkuśa (goad, also ankus [3] or anlius) – a sharp metal hook used as guide in the training and handling of the elephant.
Bushmen bowhunting for bushmeat in Botswana. Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals. [10] The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to obtain the animal's body for meat and useful animal products (fur/hide, bone/tusks, horn/antler, etc.), for recreation/taxidermy (see trophy hunting), although it may also be done for ...
This article, Hunting for Ghosts, Metaphors and Meaning: A cemetery stroll with ‘The Minorities’ author Suffian Hakim, originally appeared on Coconuts, Asia's leading alternative media company.
The sticks may be short like a cudgel or a long staff. The former are sometimes paired with a shield. [citation needed] Lathi khela is a traditional Bengali martial art [68] [69] – a kind of stick fighting practised mainly in Bengal [68] [69] and Northeast India. Stick fighting has an ancient history in the Indian subcontinent.