elephant rides
Pachyderm passenger experience
Elephant rides are a tourist attraction in which people sit on an elephant's back, typically in a seat called a howdah, while the animal walks a set route.
Once popular at zoos, circuses, and in Southeast Asian tourism, the practice has declined amid animal welfare concerns: The sanctuary no longer offers elephant rides.
The phrase sometimes appears figuratively for any slow, lumbering conveyance.
- mahoutElephant keeper and driver
- trunkMain stem or storage
- tusksExtended animal incisors
- safariWildlife observation journey
- howdahElephant-back passenger seat
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