HOW DO YOU MAHOUT

Have you ever heard of the mahouts. If you haven't I think they're one of the coolest animals in the whole wide world. Mahouts are elephant huge elephants that live in India. The word mahout is elephant keeper in hindi. There are currently 3,500 captive elephants in zoos, circuses, temples, government forest reserves and under private ownership in India, according to surveys conducted by the Bangalore-based Asian nature conservation foundation over the past six years. Each elephant usually has two mahouts, and three in some cases. Usually, a mahout starts as a boy in the 'family profession' when he is assigned an elephant early in its life. What do you think about mahouts.