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>a small 5-6 year old elephant is about $15K. What's the correlation with elephant age and price? Are younger elephants more expensive because they're easier t
by mayniac 7y ago
>a small 5-6 year old elephant is about $15K.
What's the correlation with elephant age and price? Are younger elephants more expensive because they're easier to train, or are older elephants more expensive because they can get to work quickly?
- Ayesh 7y agoYounger ones tend to be more expensive. I think there are more strict laws against "owning" younger elephants as they need to grow up with their mother. Most people tend to get younger elephants because of the life span. They will be easier to train, and you have a few more years to get to know them with your own "mahout" (term they use for the one person who takes care, tame, and train the elephant throughout the elephants life). For mature elephants, the owner will be paying the Mahout as well (monthly or so) because the elephant is already used to him. When elephants get older, they are sometimes donated to Buddhist temples to keep.