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animal training 101 Anonymous
I heard some interesting stuff about how they train elephants to become obedient.
It's important the training starts when the elephant is still a small baby. They tie the elephant to a tree with a rope around its neck. The baby elephant will try all day to get loose, it will try so hard it gets all bloody from the rope cutting into its neck. After a few days it won't try so hard anymore. And during the first year or so it will stop completely trying.
When the elephants grows adult, it grows very large and strong, it could easily brake such a rope and even lift the whole tree if needed. But the owners of the elephant can in fact continue to use the very same rope they used then the elephant was still a baby. And they don't even have to tie it to a tree, it's enough to just wire the rope loosely around the tree.
The reason is that the elephant won't even try to get loose anymore since it remembers it's no point in even trying.
>> Anonymous
Elephants cannot be domesticated...Just ask the mahouts of Bengal, they have ample scars and gruesome photos to prove it.
>> Anonymous
>>101882
Eh, what? Emo elephants? :D "Oh, what's the use? No point in even trying, I know I will only lose..."
>> Anonymous
>>101903
yeah its called learned helplessness

psychology 101, asshopper
>> Anonymous
>>101905
Seligman is a quack.
>> Anonymous
This is just classical conditioning. The elephant equates freedom with pain, so the new conditioned response is "don't move unrestricted."

Classical conditioning happens all the time, and "learned helplessness" is the cancer that's killing the scientific merits of psychology.
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>> Anonymous
Isn't the OP pic from the Jungle Cruise at Disneyland?
>> Anonymous
>>103605
HOSHI-
>> Anonymous
>>103605
yup