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Why I live in Amsterdam


	As many of you know I am a hugely successful breeder and trainer of Indian Racing Elephants. As I have become more involved in the racing elephant scene I started to find research that suggested elephants hate hills. Here's a summary of what I learned. Elephants hate walking up slopes and prefer to stick to the flat, according to a study of their movements across the African savannah. Using global-positioning tracking data, researchers have found that hills are a key influence on elephant movements and land use. The findings of the study in northern Kenya, where more than 5,000 elephants roam, are reported by Prof Fritz Vollrath of the University of Oxford and Jake Wall and Iain Douglas-Hamilton of Save the Elephants, and appear today in the journal Current Biology. Understanding factors that determine density hot-spots and corridors where elephants like to move is critical in securing safe niches for them in the face of human encroachment on their habitat. The team calculates that climbing 100 metres would "burn" energy that would take an extra half hour of foraging to replace - or would need to be paid for by expenditure of body reserves. The team concludes that large animals probably take a different view of sloped surroundings than lightweights, and that this is probably especially true of heavyweight herbivores, such as elephants, for whom energy replenishment can be especially time consuming. Eventually the weight of evidence became so overwhelming that I had to face the facts & in reality I had no choice but to move to a place with no hills if I wanted to take my elephants to the next level. So here I am 5 years later, running a world famous Elephant racing stable in the heart of Amsterdam. The foraging opportunities are not so great but thats more than compensated for by the lack of hills. The proof of the pudding is in the eating and Prancer, my 4 year old gelding, recently won the Chipping Sodbury100 Guineas by a good trunk Amsterdam, arsehole brits on the piss, hookers, drugs and some of the finest Elephant training friendly geography on earth. You have to love Glacial action don't you?

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anonymous

263 days ago


	Hi there handsome i am susan by name i am new on here and i saw your profile and love what i read about you so i just wanna say hi to you hope all is well over there with you it will be nice to know you more if you don't mind ...

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