Back before there was TV, a movie short of Fred Bear showed him killing an elephant with his bow. Late 1940s? 1950s? I disremember. IIRC, it was taken slightly quartering from the left rear. Heart shot. It took a while, but the elephant finally keeled over. It's memory from decades ago, but I don't think the elephant really reacted as though it were aware it had been injured--but I might well be wrong on that.
(For me, a lot of this ancient history stuff is like snapshots frozen in time. I remember the event, but the details are lost or are fuzzy. Olde Phart's memories are like that.
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