Udhagamandalam: Three tuskers from Kerala have been brought to the Theppakadu elephant camp at Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) within the Nilgiris for a three-month training, which commenced on Friday.
The three elephants have been captured from different woodland areas of the neighbouring state and reared within the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary. They could be educated to transform kumkis to tackle man-animal war in Kerala. The tuskers, identified as Neelakandan, 24, Suriyan, 20 and Surendran, 22, arrived at the Theppakadu elephant camp on Thursday night time.
They have been accompanied through mahouts (two for each and every elephants) a veterinarian and a Kerala woodland reliable.
“All the three are tamed elephants, but they appear to be very rough. They have been brought right here to be educated to transform kumkis,” mentioned Pushpakaran, deputy director, MTR buffer zone. Training an elephant to transform a kumki was once a hard job, he added.
A completely educated kumki elephant would obey each order of the mahout, proper from taking tub to having food to untying a series to chasing away a wild elephant into the woodland to lifting a rogue elephant onto a automobile.
“Here in Theppakadu, the mahouts don't use any nail or ‘ankush’ to coach the jumbos as in Kerala. It is totally a special method because the mahouts create a bondage with the animals, which is not practiced in Kerala,” Pushpakaran mentioned.
The mahouts, veterinarian and the woodland reliable from Kerala would keep again at the Theppakadu elephant camp during the training length, which would conclude on September 12, mentioned N Rajendran, Theppakadu woodland range officer. “The mahouts may also be educated to tackle the elephants,” the reliable added.
On the inaugural day of the training programme, Shenbagapriya, deputy director, MTR core zone, and Pushpakaran, amongst other woodland range officials, have been provide at the camp.
The three elephants have been captured from different woodland areas of the neighbouring state and reared within the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary. They could be educated to transform kumkis to tackle man-animal war in Kerala. The tuskers, identified as Neelakandan, 24, Suriyan, 20 and Surendran, 22, arrived at the Theppakadu elephant camp on Thursday night time.
They have been accompanied through mahouts (two for each and every elephants) a veterinarian and a Kerala woodland reliable.
“All the three are tamed elephants, but they appear to be very rough. They have been brought right here to be educated to transform kumkis,” mentioned Pushpakaran, deputy director, MTR buffer zone. Training an elephant to transform a kumki was once a hard job, he added.
A completely educated kumki elephant would obey each order of the mahout, proper from taking tub to having food to untying a series to chasing away a wild elephant into the woodland to lifting a rogue elephant onto a automobile.
“Here in Theppakadu, the mahouts don't use any nail or ‘ankush’ to coach the jumbos as in Kerala. It is totally a special method because the mahouts create a bondage with the animals, which is not practiced in Kerala,” Pushpakaran mentioned.
The mahouts, veterinarian and the woodland reliable from Kerala would keep again at the Theppakadu elephant camp during the training length, which would conclude on September 12, mentioned N Rajendran, Theppakadu woodland range officer. “The mahouts may also be educated to tackle the elephants,” the reliable added.
On the inaugural day of the training programme, Shenbagapriya, deputy director, MTR core zone, and Pushpakaran, amongst other woodland range officials, have been provide at the camp.
3 tuskers from Kerala to be trained as kumkis at Theppakadu camp
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