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Linguistic oddities (can we link our guys to an older tradition?)

By John Roberts
14 March 2010 04:19:00

I'm not an anthropologist, I'm not even an amateur anthropologist, I'm that most annoying of things (regular readers will note in every quasi-scientific field in which I dabble), I'm someone who wishes he was an anthropologist, someone who loves the idea of ideas but can't be bothered.....

Eating elephants, a habit difficult to stomach?

By John Roberts
14 March 2010 04:20:00

It is not often in my quest to bring you all sorts of elephant trivia that I have to warn the squeamish among you to look away now, but, well, if you're squeamish please look away now.     This is an old, old oddity that first popped up onto my radar a couple of months ago and.....

Ecotourism, Egotourism? (is it just time for a new word?)

By John Roberts
14 March 2010 04:20:00

After all these years hanging about elephants and tourists (as well as jungles in the early days) I don't think we've ever referred to what we do as Ecotourism, especially the latter more-than-half of my career sitting in a 77 room five star hotel - a few journalists have sneaked the.....

What do you mean you can't see it? It's an elephant son....

By John Roberts
14 March 2010 04:20:00

Even though they don't have trunks it is not easy, in the grand scheme of things, to tell if your mahouts are going blind, when it comes down to it everything they use for their daily work, from the beasts themselves to the dung they sweep, the food they eat - there's nothing too fiddly about.....

...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.....