Elephant blesses new-born baby with the tip of its trunk, ever so gently!
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Elephant greets and blesses new-born baby with the tip of its trunk, ever so gently!
Shelter home for Elephants at the Elephant Training Center in Kodanad
Elephant Training Center or 'Elephant Kraal' is an elephant training center in Kodanad is adjacent to a mini zoo, run by the Forest Department of the Government of Kerala. Kodanad is the only elephant rescue and training center in Kerala specialized for rescuing and training stranded baby elephants from the forest regions across Kerala. Before 1977, elephants were captured from the nearby Malayattoor forests and trained at Kodanad. Capture of elephants was banned in that year and Kodanad center does not engage in capturing elephants any more. The Kodanad center now focuses on training elephants. Elephants are accommodated in the sturdy cage in a more humane manner, instead of being torture-based. Elephant kids might get a wash inside the cage. Elephant handlers, called mahouts, were often found to be inhumane in dealing with the elephants under their care. To sensitize them and to teach them more humane ways of managing the elephants, a proposal was made to make Kodanad a mahout training center also.
Kodanad also offers elephant safari to visitors. Kodanad is a ecotourism destination project supported by the Government of India. As a part of this project, Kaprikkad, a village lying 3 km adjacent to Kodanad on the river bank has been set up in 2006 for entertaining visitors in the most natural and environmental friendly way. It is a typical Kerala village with paddy fields and coconut groves in the vicinity. Beautiful, golden, sandy, clean and shallow beach , evokes irresistible temptation for swimming and sunbathing. Kodanad is a beautiful rural riverside village and a popular day picnic spot in the Ernakulam district of state of Kerala in southern India. Elephant rescue and care centre for central and southern forest region of Kerala is located in Kodanad. Kodanad is situated on the south bank of river Periyar, with its' river Periyar, forests, hills, temples, churches, elephants and animal shelter (mini zoo)
Source: Wikipedia & http://worldwildlife.org
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of tens of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at rupindang [at] gmail [dot] com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
Shelter home for Elephants at the Elephant Training Center in Kodanad
Elephant Training Center or 'Elephant Kraal' is an elephant training center in Kodanad is adjacent to a mini zoo, run by the Forest Department of the Government of Kerala. Kodanad is the only elephant rescue and training center in Kerala specialized for rescuing and training stranded baby elephants from the forest regions across Kerala. Before 1977, elephants were captured from the nearby Malayattoor forests and trained at Kodanad. Capture of elephants was banned in that year and Kodanad center does not engage in capturing elephants any more. The Kodanad center now focuses on training elephants. Elephants are accommodated in the sturdy cage in a more humane manner, instead of being torture-based. Elephant kids might get a wash inside the cage. Elephant handlers, called mahouts, were often found to be inhumane in dealing with the elephants under their care. To sensitize them and to teach them more humane ways of managing the elephants, a proposal was made to make Kodanad a mahout training center also.
Kodanad also offers elephant safari to visitors. Kodanad is a ecotourism destination project supported by the Government of India. As a part of this project, Kaprikkad, a village lying 3 km adjacent to Kodanad on the river bank has been set up in 2006 for entertaining visitors in the most natural and environmental friendly way. It is a typical Kerala village with paddy fields and coconut groves in the vicinity. Beautiful, golden, sandy, clean and shallow beach , evokes irresistible temptation for swimming and sunbathing. Kodanad is a beautiful rural riverside village and a popular day picnic spot in the Ernakulam district of state of Kerala in southern India. Elephant rescue and care centre for central and southern forest region of Kerala is located in Kodanad. Kodanad is situated on the south bank of river Periyar, with its' river Periyar, forests, hills, temples, churches, elephants and animal shelter (mini zoo)
Source: Wikipedia & http://worldwildlife.org
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of tens of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at rupindang [at] gmail [dot] com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.