The wildest part is that the elephants may have handled the crossing better than the men. That completely flips the picture most of us have of Hannibal in the Alps.
Bingo. I always thought the elephants must have suffered. Not really. The men did. And the following winter is what did in the elephants, not the crossing.
The wildest part is that the elephants may have handled the crossing better than the men. That completely flips the picture most of us have of Hannibal in the Alps.
Bingo. I always thought the elephants must have suffered. Not really. The men did. And the following winter is what did in the elephants, not the crossing.