Young elephant eating

A youthful male elephant is portrayed tethered in a grassy paddock. Wearing few trappings and a junior-sized saddle-cloth, he contentedly eats plantain leaves and tree branches gathered by his mahout or keeper. He has deposited a few neat balls of dung.

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