The charity World Animal Protection says elephants are made to submit to giving rides as they are taken from their mothers as babies and forced through a savage training process known as "the crush".
This was not simply a one-way process: Savage quotes tellingly from the diaries of German teenagers in the 30s to illustrate the appeal of the Hitler Youth to young people wanting status or a sense of purpose, or just to provoke their parents.
The show, which has been on the air since October 2003, may be wacky, but Mr. Hyneman and Mr. Savage employ thinking and processes that are grounded in scientific method.
From 1984 until she was appointed a high court judge in 1994 she presided over a far-reaching revamp of family law which included no-fault divorce - later so savaged in the parliamentary process that it became unworkable and was jettisoned by the last lord chancellor, Derry Irvine - and the right of unmarried victims of domestic violence to stay in their homes.
In what Doug Taylor, the leader of Enfield council, describes as an incredibly ill-informed and inappropriate intervention, the minister told the Enfield Independent: If you look at the successful local authorities, they are the people who have worked out what the vitally important things are that they do, and have managed to get through this process without savaging the things that really matter.
Notably absent from Lepore's piece was a discussion of the savage attacks on the democratic process itself which occurred in Tucson, Arizona, and overseas, in Oslo and Utoya Island, Norway.
Regional turmoil, Greece's own internal deflation – a process that though savage has produced bargain basement deals – and the introduction of longer opening hours at museums and archaeological sites have helped spur the turnaround.
Trump said, "We cannot continue to allow thousands upon thousands of people to pour into our country, many of whom have the same thought process as this savage killer".
The process, however, is as savage and barbaric as it is life-saving.
