Quote Originally Posted by CirdanDharix
Actually, classical texts say that some elephants in the Carthie herd were huge compared to the rest. It's just conjecture but to me it seems more plausible for them to have bush elephants than for forest elephants to be towered.
Yeah, the Ptolemaioi lent large sums of money to the Carthaginians for their wars against Rome. Some suggest that this could also have included (large) elephants.