| ▲ | Starman_Jones 4 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||
Worth noting that these would have been North African elephants, a now-extinct subspecies. It is not as tall as the modern African elephant - 2.5m at the shoulder, as compared to 3 to 3.5m for African elephants. A large warhorse might measure 1.5m tall, for comparison. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Mordisquitos 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
It is my understanding that Asian elephants are easier to tame by humans than African elephants, which is evident just by seeing how elephants are used in parts of Asia and how they are used (not) in Africa. Also circus elephants, when they were still common, would always be Asian elephants and not African ones. The reason I'm pointing this out is that I wonder whether the North African subspecies was more amenable to taming than still extant subspecies of the African elephant. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | rightbyte 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
> A large warhorse might measure 1.5m tall, for comparison. By sadle hight not at ear top hight, right? | ||||||||||||||||||||
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