Cathiginian War Elephants

[LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS]

Anybody is thinking in re-enact a war elephant? :lol:

[Tarbicus]

Anybody is thinking in re-enact a war elephant? :lol:

Sounds like an ideal Deepeeka project... :wink:

[~Praetoria~]

Wasn't it a smaller, now extinct, species of elephant, more akin to the Indian elephant? I think it is known as the North-African, or Forest, elephant.

african forest elephants still live in the Congo. I know, I like animals, and elephants interest me a lot.
some pics of modern day living forest elephants, of the Congo:




they live in the Congo Basin to be exact

Anybody is thinking in re-enact a war elephant?

good luck, elephants have been known to suddenly freak out and go on a rampage trampeling and crushing anyone in range

[~Praetoria~]

They were also very good in mountainous terrain.

not if it was snowy, look at Hannibal's elephants, they all died of sickness after crossing the freezing Italian alps

[Jona Lendering]

They used the african elephant

Wasn't it a smaller, now extinct, species of elephant, more akin to the Indian elephant? I think it is known as the North-African, or Forest, elephant.

The Forest elephant is the Loxodanta Africana Cyclotis, which still exists and lives in central Africa; the North-African elephant is called Loxodanta Atlantica.

According to Serge Lancel's Hannibal (1995), this was the type of elephant that Hannibal wanted to use, but only one of them was still alive when he captured Capua.

Still, it made a great impression, and the Romans were to hunt down these elephants, which were killed in the amphitheaters. The species is now extinct.

[~Praetoria~]

The species is now extinct.

the Congo forest elephants in Africa aren't extinct (if that's the type of elephants you were referring to)

[Tarbicus]

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[Jona Lendering]

The species is now extinct.

the Congo forest elephants in Africa aren't extinct (if that's the type of elephants you were referring to)

Then I have not explained myself correctly. I meant the North-African elephant, Loxodanta Atlantica. The pictures you showed indeed prove that the Forest elephant is very much alive.

[~Praetoria~]

I meant the North-African elephant, Loxodanta Atlantica.

oh, ok. I was just trying to find out exactly which type was extinct, at first I thought you said all African forest elephants are extinct