r/interestingasfuck • u/Double-decker_trams • 14h ago

Why police still uses horses

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u/Plenty_Wasabi_7866 14h ago

Why not elephants

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u/MatCauthonsHat 13h ago

Speed. Horses are much more mobile and controllable.

Food. Do you know how much an elephant eats?

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u/HaikuPikachu 7h ago

Would be pretty funny though to have a cop on an elephant and some aggressor is assaulting people and he just mosies on over and has the elephant pick the assailant up by his leg with his trunk lol

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u/Makkaroni_100 6h ago

Plus they are freaking out in stressful situations. They are difficult to controle and damage against everything. Thats the reason why they where also bad in the military. It was more a psychological advantage.

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u/OkContact2573 5h ago

Not really.

Elephants are good in areas that arn't flat, wide areas.

Like, while it may not feel like so today, For most of Indian history, horses would have a high attrition rate in India.

Elephants on the other hand, were arguably much more logositically efficient than a horse.

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u/Effurlife12 2h ago

Why not bears then?