Management of captive young elephants in Kerala (Record no. 27566)

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Classification number 636.088
Item number ACT/MA
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Personal name Acty George
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Title Management of captive young elephants in Kerala
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Mannuthy
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Department of Livestock Production Management, college of veterinary and animal sciences
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2006
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Degree type MVSc
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Summary, etc. The present study was undertaken to suggest suitable recommendations in the management of captive young elephants of Kerala after assessing the existing management, feeding and training practices through survey method. The credibility of information collected was cross checked with physical verification.

Data was collected from the owners’ house holds and offices and sites where animal was tethered by personal interviews during March to August 2006. The observations made were on routine, housing feeding, diseases and health management, behaviour and temperament and record keeping.

From the study, it was evident that majority of the elephant owners, first and second mahouts belonged to middle age groups. Even though none of the owners received training, half of the owners were richly experienced in elephant management. Majority of the owners and mahouts selected elephant rearing as hereditary business or job. Injury was a major constraint in case of mahouts.

The young animals were divided in to three groups based on their age as 0- 2yrs (Group I), 2-6yrs (Group II) and 6-15yrs (Group III). Group II and III received more watering, wetting and bathing. Frequency of wetting and watering was highest in summer season. Actual training starts at 6 years of age and train the elephants for various purposes. It was evident that young elephants are fed above the nutritional requirements and kept idle for most of the time in the year. Boredom was found to be a factor for behavioural anomalies. Major ailments in young ones was diarrhoea were as impaction in adults. There was record keeping only in organized elephant care facilities.
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Personal name Anil KS(Guide)
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810108579
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          KAU Central Library, Thrissur KAU Central Library, Thrissur Theses 2014-03-18 636.088 ACT/MA 172625 2014-03-18 2014-03-18 Theses
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