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A young male calf and his mother |
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An elephant inspection |
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Homeward bound after the day's work |
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Elephants being scrubbed with dohnwai creeper |
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Post-mortems |
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Inseparable : the young oozie is almost part
of his animal |
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Elephants being saddled before work |
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An old gentleman of fifty-seven |
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A study in shadows |
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Pulling his weight . |
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Two pushing and one pulling |
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A determined tusker rolling a very heavy log |
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A typical oozie |
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A tusker, showing his teak bell, or kalouk |
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A female elephant of over fifty, with her calf |
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An untrained calf making friends with his mother's
oozie |
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The koonkie, or schoolmaster, leading a string
of his pupils |
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A bunch of calves in a training camp |
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A young tusker of eighteen years |
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Probing an old tiger wound which is still septic |
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Syringing a sinus |
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The author about to operate on a dangerous tusker
in a "crush" |
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A tusker in a "crush" before an operation
on his injured forefoot |
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Embarkation of elephants |
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Teak rafts on the main Irrawaddy River ready
for dispatch |
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A Forest Assistant watching his elephant transport
crossing a river |
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Bath time |
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Loading tamarind fruit which has been brought
by water |
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Jungle transport |
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Sawing off the tips of the tusks so as to make
them grow thicker |
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A dangerous tusker who has killed several oozies |
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Travelling elephants about to cross the Yu River |
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Cooling off after the day's work . |
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Hauling a log up a steep slope with block and
tackle |
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Three elephants in tandem dragging heavy logs |
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The first elephant bridge for the XIVth Army |
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The last pull: bringing a log to the river |
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Easing logs out of sand |
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A tusker easing a log away from the stump to
a ridge for dragging |
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Two female calves, stealing salt, which they
love |
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The "C" is the brand of the Bombay
Burma Corporation and is marked with phosphorous paint |
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The author, with one of his dogs |
