Show i Training Elephants i In India Burma Durma and Slam Siam ele etc have been domesticated since written history began being used as beasts of burden and for hunting The period of training lasts many years ears says a writer in the I Chicago Tribune and a well well trained trained animal will frequently command aprice aprice a price as high as Contrary to general belle belief the big African elephants ele- ele I are about as amenable to toi i training as their Indian cousins The armies of ancient Carthage used I African elephants In war and ac ae I cording to At Api Apt In the Congo there were in 1928 1923 fifty elephants ele etc I I in training nineteen of which I had completed the course and were working animals The training is I done by local natives who learned I their business from Indian mahouts I imported as instructors Half grown wild elephants are chosen for trainIng train Ing ing which is carried on for ten I years before the animal is strong enough nough for regular work Attempts to shorten the period of training inthe in inthe the past have always ended In la the death of the tile animal |