In this report by Dan Rivers, of CNN, he discusses the use of elephants as cash making machines for local villagers. He calls it "elephant begging". The elephants are withheld food and then made to walk the winding, fog filled streets of Bangkok looking for tourists who will pay feed them. The villagers can make as much as $30 per animal per day which in Thailand is very good money. They are shaping these animals to lose their fear of humans and rely on them as their source of food. I could see that they were being conditioned and the food being used as a reward.
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