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{{Short description|Elephant rider, trainer, or keeper}} {{For|the machine learning project|Apache Mahout}} {{Infobox military unit | unit_name = Mahout | native_name = ''Mahout'' | image = | image_size = | caption = | date = | country = [[India|Historical India]] | branch = [[Cavalry]] (melee) | size = | garrison = | colors = | equipment = | battles = }} [[File:An elephant keeper riding his elephant - Tashrih al-aqvam (1825), f.117v - BL Add. 27255.jpg|thumb|An image of the elephant keeper in India riding his elephant from ''Tashrih al-aqvam'' (1825).]] [[File:Mahout dan gajah menyemburkan air dari belalainya ke arah pohon, CRU Samponiet.jpg|thumb|Samponiet Reserve, Aceh]] [[Image:Mahout with young elephant.jpg|right|thumb|Mahout with a young elephant at [[Elephant Nature Park]], Thailand]] [[File:A young Elephant and its Mahout.jpg|thumb|A young elephant and his mahout, [[Kerala]], [[India]]]] A '''mahout''' is an [[Asian elephant|elephant]] rider, trainer, or keeper.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mahout|url=http://www.elephant.se/mahout.php|website=Absolute Elephant Information Encyclopedia|access-date=27 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201202249/http://www.elephant.se/mahout.php|archive-date=1 February 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Mahouts were used since antiquity for both civilian and military use. Traditionally, mahouts came from ethnic groups with generations of elephant keeping experience, with a mahout retaining his elephant throughout its working life or service years.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Laws|first1=Eric|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XTELEAAAQBAJ&dq=Mahout,+a+Keeper+and+Driver+of+an+Elephant&pg=PR28|title=The Elephant Tourism Business|last2=Scott|first2=Noel|last3=Font|first3=Xavier|last4=Koldowski|first4=John|date=2020-11-23|publisher=CABI|isbn=978-1-78924-586-8|language=en}}</ref>
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