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Re:Elephants may be domesticating themselves by ant6n on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @01:44PM (#36047949)
Yet war elephants are a thing.
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Re:Elephants may be domesticating themselves by gibspaulding on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @02:09PM (#36048378)
Apparently specifically because of the food issue they weren't generally worth the trouble. ACOUP has a good post about it [1]. TL/DR: For the amount of fodder and manpower you need for one elephant, you can have a lot of traditional horse calvary.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2019/08/02/collections-war-elephants-part...

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