re: Who the Baddest BAWS in the animal kingdom

A healthy raging bull elephant is the one fricking thing you never want to see in nature. You will die if you are on foot and don't have a tree to climb, hole to jump in, etc....etc...

The fastest men to ever live all come from the tribes originating where the African Bull Elephant resides. They ran their asses off to get away when confronted and passed those genes on down the line.

That is not hyperbole. It is a known fact by geneticists who studied the genes back in the 1990's of rhe world's fastest men. Crazy huh? All from one fricking area with one fricking tribe.

Yea, elephants. They bad baws.

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Fun fact, war elephants used in the Medeterranian were not Indian or African elephants but a smaller sub species found in North African forests. They were smaller than Indian elephants and very trainable

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They were also are scared by the squeals of a hog. The Greeks were the first to learn this and the Romans used squealing pigs to scare off elephant legions.

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They were also are scared by the squeals of a hog. The Greeks were the first to learn this and the Romans used squealing pigs to scare off elephant legions.

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But eventually the Carthaginians figured this out and trained them to not run off at the sound or sight of screaming hogs.

Scipio Africanus beat Hannibal at the battle of Zama, not with hogs, but by opening up large gaps in his lines when the elephants charged. The elephants ran harmlessly through the gaps, the Romans closed the gaps and attacked the elephants which confused them, so the ones that survived turned around and charged back through the gaps, and ended up trampling the Carthaginian troops instead of the Romans

Pretty awesome