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Re:Cockatoo identified in 13th Century European book by smadge on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @07:04PM (#17404654)
Not as surprising since the Elephants came from just a few hundred miles away accross the Mediterranean Sea.
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Re:Cockatoo identified in 13th Century European book by adrianratnapala on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @08:43PM (#17405036)
The Romans used both north African elephants (now extinct) and Asian elephants which they got by long-distance trade.

Apparently the Asian elephants were larger; and besides I suppose India and Sri Lanka also had better infrastructure for catching and training war elephants than the Roman Empire did.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_elephant

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