Preview: The People of North Africa

[Dunadd]

There's proof that the african bush elephant was not used in war, which means that carthaginian elephants were mostly north-african forest elephants (now extinct). There are references to african elephants in Hannibal's army with towers, and they were north-african forest elephants.

Interesting stuff on whether African bush elephants can be trained here. It seems they can - though i dont know if there's any evidence of them being trained for war in ancient times.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqu...,-1775,00.html

And some stuff from BBC Nature - it seems scientists are divided on whether Hannibal's elephants were African Bush elephants, African forest elephants or a separate species of North African forest elephants that are now extinct.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/species/...orest_Elephant