Talk:Syrian Elephant

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I thoroughly rewrote the text. "Syrian" elephants were clearly Indian - there are AFAIK no ancient sources suggesting that the Seleucids captured elephants in Syria, or that these were extinguished around 100 BCE. What happened around that time was that the Seleucid empire was overthrown and its rulers no longer had war-elephants.

There is a reference to an article (Elephants and the Nabateans) which discuss the appearance of elephant sculptures in the city of Petra. Whether these sculptures depict Indian or African elephants, that is little proof for a Syrian sub-species.

Unless somebody comes up with a source to prove the existence of the species at all, this article may be rather redundant.Sponsianus (talk) 21:36, 23 February 2008 (UTC)