Whip

Definition of Whip

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Mentioning the word whip gives most people creeps. Especially in connection with animals.

A whip is viewed as something to punish slaves with, during colonial times, and as something which can only create pain.

But the use of the whip can, as with so much else, be operated out of different ways and power, with anything from light touch on the skin to sound cracks that doesnt even touch the animals.

As for the sake of elephants, even if it is used with power in a special situation, it doesnt inflict as much impact of the elephant skin as does the hook, and it reduce the elephants feeling of bodily punishment from the trainer, as compared with the hook.

Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2025). Whip. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=50. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Dan Koehl

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Links about Whip

Selected external links for this article about Whip:

*Robert Dante, first Guinness World Record for Worlds Fastest Whip http://www.bullwhip.net
*Whipmaker Victor Tellas Bullwhip Info Page, with video clips of specific cracks http://www.Bullwhip-Info.Com
*The Bullwhip FAQ http://www.www.bullwhip.org
*Tying a Fall Hitch http://www.coyotewhips.com/fallhitch.html
*Attach a new cracker to the fall http://www.coyotewhips.com/crackerhitch.html
*How to tie a popper on a the fall of a bullwhip, snake whip or stock whip http://www.bullwhip-info.com/whip_repair/bullwhip_popper/tie_a_bull_whips-popper.html
Bullwhip Repair http://www.bullwhip-info.com/whip_repair/repairing_bullwhips.html

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