TRAINING ELEPHANTS TO WALTZ.
The task of training elephants is one that requires muscle as well as persuasion arid intelligence.
If an elephant is to be taught to waltz one man gets at the front end and another at the rear end of the beast, and each shoves his end round until the animal learns that when he hears the word " Waltz " it means that he is to whirl.
When the elephant walks with his foreleg on a rolling tub one man goes before and another behind the tub and steady, it for the elephant with crowbars'stuck between the tub and the ground. In the sea-saw act the elephants at the end and the one in the middle have to be held in pos* ition by tackle and by men.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 169, 18 July 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)
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130TRAINING ELEPHANTS TO WALTZ. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 169, 18 July 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)
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