An elephant’s call of distress woke Tayef Ahemd one day and he headed out into the jungle to see what was happening. Half a kilometre down a muddy trail, he found a makeshift shed and a young elephant calf whose legs were tied to logs. A man was talking to the animal and poking it with a stick, training it in a practise known locally as “hadani.” “The calf was crying as it couldn’t move an inch. When the pain was unbearable it raised its trunk and cried at the top of its voice,” Ahmed told dpa, describing the scene in Lathitila forest, in the Moulvibazar district north-east of Dhaka. Elephant …