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Indian elephants and drive methods explained in detail
The article describes Asian elephants in India Burma Ceylon and Java noting their smaller height yet clever trunk sense and ease of taming. It explains traditional capture via pits then elephant drives to corral herds into a keddah with taming lasting about three weeks and ends with a teaser for the next installment on tame elephants.
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India
Burma
Messay Peninsula
Ceylon
Java
Africa
Asia