Elephants

Elephants are large quadruped mammals. They are characterized by their large, floppy ears, long trunks and tusks. Elephants are indigenous to regions of Africa and South Asia. Hunters are known to kill elephants for both sport and money. Ivory from an elephant's tusk is worth quite a lot on the black market.


 * One of the most infamous cinematic elephants of all time is Dumbo, who is the eponymous pachyderm from the 1941 animated feature Dumbo by Walt Disney Productions. Dumbo had overly large ears, which made him the laughing stock of the circus that his mother and he worked at. As such, he was usually the target of taunts and cruel jests. Miraculously, Dumbo found a way to use his gigantoid ears as wings so he could fly. Now that he had a new "trick", he suddenly became the star attraction at the circus.


 * In Nathan Juran's 1957 giant monster movie 20 Million Miles to Earth, the Venusian creature dubbed Ymir broke out of a zoo in Rome, which also housed an elephant. The two titans wrestled about through the streets of Rome crushing anything that got into their path. At one point the elephant was knocked over, crushing hapless pedestrians. The alien grabbed the elephant and bit down hard into its neck, killing it.


 * An elephant was used as a prop animal for the Bantha seen in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. If you look closely, you can see the unmistakable elephant feet beneath the costume.
 * Circus elephants were also seen in the 1985 film The Bride. Newly hired performers Vicktor and Rinaldo had to work with elephants during their performances.


 * In the 1995 Disney comedy Operation Dumbo Drop a team of Green Berets during the Vietnam War in 1968 led by Captain Captain Sam Cahill and Captain T.C. Doyle, attempted to transport an elephant through jungle terrain to a local South Vietnamese village which in turn helped American forces monitor Viet Cong activity.