Pyrrus, elephants, tower

[Alrik]

We originally gave Epeiros the ability to recruit elephants because of the thought of a breeding being possible. In having done more research on elephants in general, I can safely say that a viable breeding population would be impossible to maintain -- even in modern zoos it is impossible. In light of that, what we do in EB2 will be much different.

Well breeding is possible, that it's impossible in modern zoos is no excuse, what do they have a handful of animals caged up and let to "run wild". A sustainable population of anything I think is in the 300-eds, 340? To avoid inbreeding (obviously that small a population is only so through rigorus control of who mates with who.) And I assume no zoo has that kind of population, in fact I kind of doubt the zoos of the whole world all together get much above that number, but I also assume that good Pyrrus planned to have that number and more if he ever intended of having any number of them in battle.