Singara, Mudumalai, & Bundhipur National Parks 3

There are many domesticated elephants in & around these national parks. Many of them & their "owners" congregate at a single location every few days for an elephant feeding "get together". The owners discuss "work prospects" & the health of their elephants. The day I visited was for "males only".<- bc when the sexes mix there can be problems.
Top pic is of elephants waiting to be fed - there were more than 40 tuskers there but they keep them well apart from each other.
They feed each elephant a huge block of "individually prescribed" (by vet) food - that's a prescribed meal on the shoulder of the man in center pic. Each is a mixture of cooked rice, sugar, salt, vitamins & ground/concentrated grains.
Feedings are visited by a state-paid vets who, if an owner requests, will check the elephants, prescribe medications, & provide general medical consultations/services. The bottom pic is of a vet administering what appeared to be an enema??
Because elephants are my favorite critters - I felt honored to be amongst these gracious, gentle beasts.