First European Elephant Management School in Hamburg

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First European Elephant Management School in Hamburg
11th-19th November 2013



For the past eleven years (founded Nov. 2003) Elephant Business (Escondido, USA) and Hagenbecks Tierpark (Hamburg, Germany) offer annually a unique comprehensive course on elephant management.

The curriculum covers the majority aspects of elephant management and elephant care, from husbandry and health care, to transport, training, reproduction and conservation. Due to the large interest we have decided to offer this course again in November 2013. This is the eleventh year of the school and each year it has been highly successful, attracting many elephant professionals from all walks of life.


The First European Elephant Management School is the first one of its kind and the lectures are international experts in their field.
The First European Elephant Management School is a practical orientated course on different elephant management tactics.


Protected contact as well as free contact management techniques and procedures will be trained. Hagenbecks Tierpark currently houses ten Asian elephants of all age groups and with a high training standard.
Important elephant management procedures will be taught on and with the animal (e.g. foot trimming, health care, transport, management techniques).
The School is held in a nine days session. The course is recommended for all people responsible for elephants in a zoo environment. i.e.:
keepers, zoo curator, veterinarians, and other professionals with an interest in elephant care, conservation and management. However, a basic knowledge on elephant management is required.


Please note, that the number of participants is limited to 15 students!
We have already received a couple of registrations for this year, so don't leave it too late. Detailed information on the school, its topics and its lecturers are available
under: http://www.elephant-management.com Please take a look at our web site and judge for yourself if it would be appropriate for your institution to attend.


The course is a non profit course, however, the fee is based to cover all flights and accommodation costs of the participating lecturers which will come to Hamburg from all over the world (United States, England, Germany, India, Sri Lanka and South Africa).


Date: 11th - 19th of November 2013
Location: Tierpark Hagenbeck Hamburg, Germany (practical
courses) and Lindners Parkhotel Hagenbeck Hamburg, Germany (theoretical
lessons)
Language: English (on special request we are also able to offer the course in other languages)


Please forward this letter to the elephant keepers, elephant curators, veterinarians and zoological directors of your institution.


For further inquiries please do not hesitate to contact my assistant,
Dr. Adriane Prahl (prahl@hagenbeck.de) or me directly. Thank you for
your interest. We look forward to receive your registration and to
welcome you in Hamburg this oncoming November.
Yours sincerely,

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First European Elephant Management School

Hagenbeck's Tierpark (Zoo of Hamburg) has been keeping and taking care of elephants for more than one century. During this period Hagenbeck was often a precursor in fields such as the presentation of animals, their research and breeding. Highly qualified elephant keepers and internationally renown elephant experts have studied, learnt and gained their experience at Hagenbeck’s Tierpark .

During this long period of time many things have changed concerning the management of the animals and elephant keepers. From the beginning until well into the second half of the last century, during the time of intense animal trade, the animals only stayed with Hagenbeck’s for a short period of time. During this period, the animals were trained and prepared for their future life, to live under human care until finally given away to their new homes. Due to this a herd structure could not develop.
Already in 1984 Hagenbeck’s Tierpark started to specialize as one of the first German institutions in conservation and breeding of Asian elephants. In the meantime it kept one of the most successful breeding groups of the world. Today they try to keep an intact elephant herd without abstaining from the specific interaction between visitors and the grey giants (park walks, elephant rides, shows etc.).

Despite of the ongoing international discussion, Hagenbeck’s Tierpark still holds on to its basic policy to keep the animals in a “hands on” husbandry environment. The “hands on“ husbandry environment is normally still the most appropriate husbandry for these animals that need intense care. The “hands on” husbandry is surely also the most work intensive and most dangerous sort of husbandry. It demands great knowledge, a large scale of experience and a very high degree of discipline of elephant keepers. To reduce the risk for the keepers Hagenbeck has compiled a handbook in the past three years, which is based on the year long experience acquired at the Animal Park. On behalf of a team of world wide experts Hagenbeck’s Tierpark would like to let other institutions have part of far reaching and successful experience in the husbandry, breeding and research of these fascinating and care-intense grey giants.

For the future Hagenbeck seeks to find solutions, to draw its conclusions from the true elements of coming experience and to tread new paths.

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