Amazing! Hannibal's Elephants of War
Historians analyze the psychological advantages to using Elephants in battle
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OMG! In school we are just talking about Hannibal and his elephants.. I'm going to send this to my teacher! 
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#1 "The marula fruit is also eaten by various animals in Southern Africa. In the movie Animals Are Beautiful People by Jamie Uys, released in 1974, some scenes were shown where elephants, warthogs and monkeys got drunk from eating fermented marula fruit. Later research showed that these scenes were improbable and, in all probability, staged. Elephants would need a huge amount of fermented marulas to have any effect on them, and other animals prefer the ripe fruit. The amount of water drunk by elephants each day would also dilute the effect of the fruit to such an extent that they would not be affected by it."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclerocarya_birrea?oldid=112639272
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This video made think of war pigs, incendiary pigs. Were they counter to the elephants and how good counter could they be? Mythbusters question.
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8. banzemanga 1 year ago
I loled at the ending. "They attack everything"
The best weapon turns out to be a double edge sword. 
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9. ringmaster 1 year ago
Oliphaunts from The Lord of the Rings are used the same way, but they are giants to elephants.
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1. Usdevildoggmc 1 year ago
A warrior riding a TAME elephant does not need to feed the beast alcohol... all animals (Except humans) are actually very peaceful after drinking.. don't believe me?
Check out this video, you'll laugh ur ass off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5E5TjkDvU0
I would not ride a drunk elephant unless you held my family at gun point... as he said at 3:35 They attack everyone because they don't know what the fuck the difference is between red coats and blue coats, and if you haven't seen VIDEOS of what an elephant can do to human beings..... well I suggest you look them up because 1 Male African elephant can throw 100 human beings around like rag dolls.