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The Elephants In India, there are both domesticated and wild elephants. The wild elephants are commonly found in the southern region where I have not yet been. I saw only domesticated elephants, and it happened on two occasions. In the first case, we stopped to eat our packed breakfast. While we ate, two elephants are walking with each of his drivers on the back. An elephant coach is called a mahout in the local language. These two mahouts were also park guards, and they were sent out to trace tigers. They have radio contact with the national park office which is usually located at the entrance to the park. Park officers are the only ones who can have a radio or mobile phones in the national park. One would like to know about how many tigers there are and where they are. The wagons as we drove around the park had no radios. The authorities will not have all cars in the park immediately run across in an area where there has just been seen a tiger. Therefore, only the park rangers know, not the guides in the touring cars. The guides are talking together when they meet and in this way information runs about what the other cars have observed. The two mahouts in the first national park had not seen any tigers that morning, and after talking with them, they went away in another direction. I recorded a small video film of these two elephants and you can see it here. It is marked First elephant film |
