There these wild elephants are tamed and trained by mahouts specialized as elephant tainers. The elephants were driven into the stockade by skilled "mahouts" mounted on domesticated elephants. Many mahouts thus mate their female elephants. Mahouts were responsible for capturing and handling elephants. The elephants' mahouts, eager to demonstrate their charges' prowess, nevertheless drove them forward. Logging had been the primary occupation of Thai elephants and their mahouts. There are 48 mahouts (handlers) who take care of the elephants. Inexperienced mahouts are more likely to further harm their elephants and beat them into submission. He used 60 elephants brought from Asia with their mahouts. In India, especially Kerala, mahouts use three types of device to control elephants. As of 2014, MEF has 9 elephants and 13 mahouts. Many of his ancestors were elephant drivers (mahouts). She gave the local mahouts training on 'protected contact' with the jumbos. They were trained using Mahouts, specially skilled people also known as 'Paappaan' in Malayalam language. They are often abused by drunk and brutal mahouts.