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Good point. Elephants have been used in warfare for centuries in South/South-East Asia and i can find not a single account of pigs/noise being used to rout the
by rramadass 4y ago
Good point.
Elephants have been used in warfare for centuries in South/South-East Asia and i can find not a single account of pigs/noise being used to rout them. Even their Elephant training manuals do not mention them.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34637079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34637079
- johngladtj 4y agoMy understanding was that it wasn't so much the pigs that scared the elephants, but the fact that they were running around on fire
- boomboomsubban 4y agoIt's supposed to be the mad squealing from them running around on fire, if it were just the fire they'd use torches and fire arrows.