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Art of elephant keeping

Ilja Tromb from Netherlands is now at Kerala to study the art of elephant keeping from mahouts of Punnathoorkotta the largest elephant sanctuary in Asia. She is planning to do a paper on elephant management. For this she wants to know more about the relation between the mahout and the elephant, elephant's body language and communication between the elephant and mahout. The main obstacle for her study is the language. Her teacher the mahout Sathyapalan appreciates her hardwork and devotion. She is practicing the training with the elephant Lakshmanan.  She is an MBA holder from Amsterdam and running a business at Holand.  After gaining the training from Punnathur kotta she is planning to go to Jubari Park at Mysore.  The love towards this beast compelled her to do such innovative tasks.

News from Mathrubhumi on October 2003
 

Little Mahout of Kerala

8 Year old Ananthu is the  mahout of 35 old tusker Soman.  He can easily climb to the elephant's top and he controls the tusker with Vadi and Thotti.  His father Kunjumon is the first mahout.  His love towards the elephant made him hero to the elephant lovers of Kerala.  The owner of the tusker is Kannezhathu Raghavan Nair.

News from Mathrubhumi

In malayalam mahout is called as 'Paappan' .  Every elephant have three mahouts.  Their main duties include controlling the elephant,  Providing fodder and water  at the correct time,  bathing the elephant and caring the elephant in a hygienic way.