Tom wrote:
> I wonder how they
> separated the babies from the moms without getting trampled.
> Probably shot them from ambush?

After 40k bc or so they had bows and arrows.
If you said Cro Magnon it would have been possible.

> Modern Africans, some tribes, made a habit of hunting
> elephants with bow and arrow, adults! The British made them
> stop. Not my idea of a safe pastime.

I heard of this. They used poisoned arrows. Just a small injury.
And after a long time a dead elephant.
Sometimes dying elephants with very ugly wounds after the intoxications.
Not really the gentle or courageous way.

Amadeus