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...on why it is important to keep mahouts smiling if you want to put a smile on an elephant's face.

By John
2 March 2010 02:06:00

It seems odd but, in this cut and thrust world we live in, I am often asked whether we treat our mahouts too well?  I'm not going to point fingers and name names but there is a great perception there in the outside world that perhaps we've gone a step or two too far in cosseting our elephant.....

Wild elephants in San Francisco? (a date for your West Coast diary)

By John Roberts
12 December 2009 04:12:00

For those of you with spare time on your hands in the Bay area tomorrow (12/12/09), I can highly recommend popping down to the San Francisco Silent Film Festival at 11.30 in the morning to catch "Chang: A drama of the wilderness".     The movie is great not only for it's.....

Just when you thought it was safe to play favourites (it turns out they exhibit relative quantity judgement)

By John Roberts
11 December 2009 01:24:00

If you come to my camp and ask me which is my favourite elephant I'll tell you that I don't have one, can't have one, and that they are all equal to me.  Apart from the fact that is an outright lie it seems to me to be a sensible policy, you don't get Bodo or Michel telling.....

Is webcam wilderness still wild? (or is freedom just another word for nothing left to lose?)

By John Roberts
11 December 2009 01:20:00

Many years ago, in a land far, far away I was once, believe it or not, an English child and I still have vague memories of Sunday T.V. watching (in Black and White but more by license choice than necessity - I'm not that old), Rugby Special or Ski Sunday and then usually a programme with Dr David.....

G'day Mate (an Aussie V.C.R. date)

By John Roberts
4 December 2009 08:56:00

...before she appealed to us to come and live here Pumpui's Mum, K. Varunee, was part of the one of the extended families whose elephants were chosen to go to Taronga Zoo in Sydney, being the most photogenic she was chosen to take part in a story culminating in the birth of Luk Chai - the first.....