Captive elephants - Wikipedia
Captive elephants. An elephant carrying tourists sitting on a howdah. Elephants can be found in various captive facilities such as a zoo, sanctuary, circus, or camp, usually under veterinary supervision. They can be used for educational, entertainment, or work purposes.
Elephant crushing - Wikipedia
The Phajaan (Thai: ผ่าจ้าน), called "elephant crushing" or "training crush", is a method by which wild baby elephants can be tamed for domestication, using restriction in a cage, sometimes with the use of corporal punishment or negative reinforcement.
FACTBOX: How do you domesticate an elephant? | Reuters
Dec 24, 2007 · Today about a thousand tamed Thai elephants work in the modern tourist trade, while three thousand endangered wild elephants remain in the country's forests. Here are some facts about how the...
Wild Elephants Seem to Have Been Domesticated, But Not by …
Sep 23, 2023 · The team conducted a review of hundreds of genes speculated to be involved in changes to embryonic tissues considered to be in part responsible for domestication, finding some evidence that evolution has favored at least a few dozen such sequences in elephants.
Wild African elephants may have domesticated themselves
Apr 3, 2023 · Wild elephants are one of the few known species to show signs of self-domestication. The phenomenon has only previously been documented in humans and bonobos, a closely related primate.
The myth of the domesticated elephant - World Animal …
You may hear people describe elephants in captivity as ‘domesticated’, especially people from elephant entertainment venues – but this word is misleading. Elephants are not and have never been domesticated like cats or dogs.
What should we do about the 15,000 Asian elephants ... - The …
Aug 31, 2016 · All those thousands of tamed elephants in Asia can’t simply be released into the wild. Taming and captivity deeply changes their behaviour.
Asian elephant, facts and information - National Geographic
Jul 5, 2019 · Seals from the Harappan civilization, over 4,000 years old, depict tamed elephants.
Asian elephant - Wikipedia
The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), also known as the Asiatic elephant, is a species of elephant distributed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India in the west to Borneo in the east, and Nepal in the north to Sumatra in the south.
Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and …
Aug 7, 2018 · Elephants captured and tamed at older ages show a higher increase in mortality after capture than elephants captured and tamed young. Moreover, the increased mortality risk following...
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