nina ortman brass is a biologist she advises camps on how to ensure that entertaining tourists isn't detrimental to elephant wellbeing. and good welfare can easily be done in a riding camp if you provide the elephant with a enough food enough water enough rest and and otherwise brief and discomfort also . the biologist is pleased with the camp's general conditions for the elephants seem to be in good shape she says but she admits that she often runs into secrecy just like today when asked about the specific methods of training young elephants the camp veterinarian becomes rather tight lipped. if it often cannot call but if asked so their view is they just see and hear their call wherever it has. on the internet it's possible to find videos of a torturous ritual decided to break an elephant spirits the method has been used for centuries it's a brutal training process that can go on for weeks only when the elephant stops resisting is it released from its agony. animal rights groups are calling for a boycott of elephant camps they convinced interactions like these are only possible once