Sentence examples for train elephants from inspiring English sources

The sharp-tipped tool is used to train elephants, but critics say it inflicts pain.

Circuses in the area now have three years to either change how they train elephants, or remove them from shows completely.

"I thought we would just train elephants to hit something, and I would tape that and have to paste it together with other things".

Some trainers have tried to train elephants without the use of physical punishment.

Jared Goodman, director of litigation for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said pressure from animal rights groups pushed the cities of Los Angeles and Oakland to ban bull hooks, the tools used by circuses to train elephants.

Furthermore, employees who trained elephants were more likely to have tuberculin skin-test conversions than those who did not train elephants (RR 4.1, 95% CI 1.3%too 13.1%).

According to the publicity, Whispers and Groove were portrayed by trained elephants.

Until about twenty years ago, Burger trained elephants and tigers, mainly for the Shrine Circus.

During his research, Mr. Plotnik consulted with mahouts, drawing on their centuries of accumulated knowledge and traditions training elephants.

"I believe if something drastic doesn't happen, then we will be the last generation that trains elephants," said Ms. Johnson, whose stepfather was also an elephant trainer.

Passengers can choose from a variety of excursions each day -- including one to a camp that trains elephants for logging -- or explore villages on their own.