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When an elephant is a baby it is tied to a tree with a rope and learns not to run away, as an adult they use a chain it could easily break [many times it is not attached to anything] but the animal is already conditioned and stays put.
The ancient Asian Kings used to give a white elephant to a courtier as a sign of favor but being sacred the animal requires expensive care and cannot work usually bankrupting the recipient.
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I like elephants, gf is terrified of them. There are wild/untamed ones living in the hills 12km from our home, not an official reserve just a place where they happen to live that has not yet been developed.
She says 20yrs ago they had them here on the farm, as well as monkeys (which neither of us like)
They are of course being given less and less land to roam on, hills are being cleared/levelled off in places for rubber plantations.
There is a very good motivational book called The Elephant and the Twig by an author called Geoff Thompson.