Elephant Time In Assam

[Nitro Express]

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[nagarifle]

your are doing a great job with the animals, keep it up, so thats why you were absent for a while eh?

[Katana]

Nitro,

Seems its been a long hiatus from IFG, but finally I figured what you were up to! The idea to use elephants against raiding elephants is brilliant. Hope you will enlighten us how its done. Keep it up.

[Bruno22]

Nitro, has been a pleasure talking to you all this while on the phone and now seeing you in action was great. What you are doing is amazing.
Cheers
Bruno22

[Sakobav]

Nitro

Thats amazing video and keep up the great work do share some of stories from the past and pictures about capturing and training elephants.

Thanks and Good luck

best

[Nitro Express]

Thank you Gentleman.You encouragement is appreciated.

Last couple of months Pachyderms have kept me busy and away from the forum.

I have managed to scan and put together a few Mela Shikar photographs.I shall be posting them on the forum shortly.

Regards,
Nitro Express

[timmy]

Kaushik, thanks so much for posting this and also your other pictures! Any elephant pictures/videos you would like to post are greatly appreciated! I loved watching this one and will forward it on to my grandchildren, who will also enjoy it.

My affinity for elephants has a somewhat different background: For some reason that was never explained to me, my Father loved elephants. What I do understand about this was that when he was 9 years old, before the Great Depression here in the USA, he ran away from home by hopping a freight train and joined the circus. All summer long, he toured the central USA with the circus tending the elephants, until the police caught up with him in Kansas City, Missouri and sent him home. I asked him what his Father did to him when he returned after those months with the circus elephants. Dad said that he just asked him, "Did you learn your lesson?" and that was the end of it.

For all of my little ones, I tell them about the elephant we keep in our back yard. They have all been delighted with this little game, except for one who sneaked out to actually see her. (The excuse is that, if she sees strange people, she may go on a rampage and tear down people's trees and turn their cars over.)

Now I have something a bit more personal, as I can tell them that a fellow IFGn is the person in the video!

Thanks so much, again!

[Nitro Express]

Timmy, Thanks a lot.I am touched.

Regards.
Kaushik

[Vikram]

Kaushik,

You are blessed to be able to do what you are doing and thank you for that.Look forward to see more such posts and pictures from you.Thanks for sharing.

Tim,

Very nice anecdote.

Best-
Vikram

[timmy]

This morning, I went to my older daughter's house for some work and asked if she'd shown her kids Kaushik's video. She hadn't, even though there was no school today and the kids were home. So she got the laptop and Nathaniel watched it -- he really liked it and thought it would be a great piece of business to have his own pair of elephants as pets!

Thanks again!

(I didn't know the kids weren't in school, or I'd have taken the camera and let you see him watching!)

[Nitro Express]

Vikram

Your words are encouraging as always.

Timmy

Once again, Thank you!


Kaushik Barua

**If any of you come down to this part of world, I shall be more than honored to put you up at my farm with the elephants.

[357 S&W]

Good job!!! This is real good. I am impressed.

[prashantsingh]

Good show nitro.
Mela Shikar makes lots of sense.
Unlike other domesticated animals like the dog,cow,goat, horse etc. The elephant has a very long life span .
It is also a voracious eater.
It is very expensive to raise a calf elephant to adulthood and then train him.
Thats why in Mela Shikar they would capture adult "wild elephants' with the help of pet elephants and subsequently train them .
This is a good way to keep wild elephants at bay. BUT it is not a permanent solution.
We have to give them the space they need to live. Which (unfortunately in India) is shrinking every day with increase in human population.

[dr.jayakumar]

nitro exdpress,
great to knowthat an ifg;an owning elephants.but i belive it is dangerous to handle this huge animals.must be really hard to maintain them.post snaps please.

[drifter]

Nitroexpress,

Excellent work, I like how you described the elephants that you have as captive and not domesticated. How true a wild animal can never be domesticated.

reg,
drifter.