Why(tamed elephants in india,Kerala) Temple elephants?
Taming is simply a process whereby a wild animal is subdued into adapting and submitting to human control. Taming of wild animals can be accomplished by various methods, but wildness is still there and can be triggered off by undue stress. There have been many incidents of trainers being attacked, killed or injured by circus animals, particularly elephants. When these animals, and even domestic animals, breed in the wild they are wild in the true sense of that word. Therefore, elephants seen in circuses retain all of their wild instincts, and to confine them in a circus and dominate them by making them obey the trainer’s commands frustrates these instincts and causes unacceptable stress.
