Elephant Polo is a popular sport.                                True       False 

Elephant Polo needs a special technique.                  True       False   

Only experts can play elephant polo.                          True       False 

Elephant Polo is played in Africa.                               True       False 

 

 

 

Elephant polo is played  in Thailand, Sri Lanka and India where working elephants are . Every year the World Elephant Polo Championship takes place in Nepal. Teams come from all over the world to , even Iceland and Sout Africa. Each team has four elephants, each with two  or players. One of them is the "mahout" or the elephant's . He tells the elephant where to go and what to do. The other player  to hit the ball into the other team's . He uses a long  stick and a special ball that the elephant's can't . If an elephant lies down in front of the goal line it's a . Sometimes an elephant picks up the ball with its  - but that's just not !