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The Tamil movie Kumki (2012), which revolves around a mahout and his trained elephant, shows the elephant in musth towards the climax. Captive elephants are either trained for duties in temples and cultural festivals or trained as a kumki elephant which confronts wild elephants and prevents them from entering villages.
Joyce Hatheway Poole (born 1 May 1956) is a biologist, ethologist, conservationist, and co-founder/scientific director of ElephantVoices. [1] She is a world authority on elephant reproductive, communicative, and cognitive behavior.
Temporin has a communicative function among elephant individuals in a group. [1]: 101 In male elephants, temporin is secreted more during the period of musth, a period of heightened sexual arousal and dominance behavior. Of note, not all temporal gland excretions in African elephant bulls do necessarily represent the musth phase.
An elephant painting A temple elephant being washed at a Hindu temple in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu Elephant from Wirth's Circus in a Sydney street parade (1938). Elephants have the largest brains of all land animals, and ever since the time of Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, [13] have been renowned for their cognitive skills, with behavioural patterns shared with humans.
Male elephants can be quite sociable when not competing for mates and form vast and fluid social networks. [107] [108] Older bulls act as the leaders of these groups. [109] The presence of older males appears to subdue the aggression and "deviant" behaviour of younger ones. [110] The largest all-male groups can reach close to 150 individuals.
Just like kids, animals love to play. Dok Gaew is an adolescent male elephant who lives at the Save Elephant Foundation (SEF) in Thailand. He was rescued in 2017 after he was orphaned shortly ...
Arjuna (born c. 1959 - 4 December 2023) was an Asian elephant who, from 2012 to 2019, was the lead elephant and the carrier of the Golden Howdah at the Mysore Dasara. [2] He was named after Arjuna, the third of the Pandava brothers from the Hindu epic Mahabharatha. Arjuna was part of a Karnataka Forest Department to tackle wild elephants across ...
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