Some cool wild animal images:
Seeking Comfort
Image by James Marvin Phelps
Mother and Foal
Wild Horses
Cold Creek, Nevada
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No, It is not a Wild Elephant, IT is a Tamed One..
Image by -RejiK
I came across an Elephant and its mahout on my way one day in Kerala this December. As I had the camera in the car too, I stopped and asked him to let the elephant pose for a photo.. I hope you would like it.. :)
It has long been a tradition in Asia to capture elephants and then to tame them. Elephants have not been bred and adapted to human needs, as has happened with cattle. After they have been tamed, elephants are used as beasts of burden or to move heavy objects. Some elephants are used as a means of transportation for people in high places (quite literally!), for instance in a procession.
(My Grandmother told me that she arrived on a carriage on top of an elephant to the church on her marriage day and the bridegroom on horseback)
Elephants were even used in wars: a kind of tower was put on their backs, from which soldiers had a good view. An elephant can carry about 500 kg on its back.
Nowadays domesticated elephants are used to give rides to tourists because the use of machinery has made many working elephants unemployed. A domesticated elephant is usually given its own keeper, a mahout. It is a lot of work to feed and wash such an animal. Most mahouts are really devoted to their animal and take good care of it, although occasionally an elephant is mistreated.
But beware: an elephant never forgets !
In my native place there is a story being told to children about elephants.. A tailor used to give a banana each day to an elephant as it was taken by its mahout for bath in the nearby river. One day he had no bananas with him and as the elephant lifted its trunk as usual to him, he gave a pin with his needle..On its way back, the elephant filled a trunk-ful of water from the river and gave a full burst of cool shower to the tailor watering him and his whole shop of clothes..
Wild Horses 2 (brumbies)
Image by andreakw
