[elcid1970]

Asian elephants can be domesticated & have been for thousands of years. African elephants are intractable. Even Hannibal’s `war elephants’ were of the Asian species.

But a wild elephant is just that, no matter where it comes from. And they are not people!! I wonder how many humans have been trampled to death because their perception of elephants was based on Walt Disney productions?

[Paladin2]

I always believe that dogs are wild, no matter how well I know them.

Thanks for distinguishing the general behaviors of the two elephant varieties. I didn't know that the train-ability was different.

[rlmorel]

I have read somewhere that when a domesticated elephant takes it upon itself to kill a human, their way of doing it with contempt is to crush the person with their head.

Don’t know if that is true, but it sounds pretty gruesome.