All of us know and love Jumbo, but there are quite a few other elephants that have made their mark on history. For example, Pope Leo X had a white pet elephant, Hanno, a gift from King Manuel I of ...

In India, the process of training an elephant has changed little since ancient times. They captured elephants in the wild because they are difficult to breed and maintain for years in captivity. Male ...

Why are there no elephants in China? And why have large numbers of elephants always existed throughout the Indian subcontinent? Why was there such a drastic divergence in the destiny of the elephant ...

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