Elephants at Work
The elephant has big brain as well as a big body, and he uses it. Notice how the one on your right kneels and seizes that peg because he can't get his trunk under the beam as his partner is doing.
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GOOD TEAM WORK
We are piling teakwood beams in Rangoon, India—my partner and I.
I pick up a little one like this all by myself, stand it on end against the pile,
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then lift it on my tusks ans slide it into place—so:
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"Draped in purple and gold he walks with the tread of an Emperor before a conquered army."
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This is the way I use my foot to crack a cocanut or roll a log.
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And this is how I roll great big logs in the forest.
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ANOTHER WAY OF MOVING BEAMS
This is how we push beams along the ground with our tusks. My partner is letting me be the whole show while you are watching us.
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EMPERORS OF INDIA Elephants pass reviewing stand at the Durbar—the great ceremony at which England's king is declared Emperor of India.
