{"id":104540,"date":"2022-04-20T19:11:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T17:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=104540"},"modified":"2022-04-20T19:11:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T17:11:55","slug":"elephants-are-afraid-of-pigs","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/elephants-are-afraid-of-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephants are afraid of pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1st-century Roman historian, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/pliniusz-starszy\/\">Pliny the Elder<\/a> and Claudius Aelianus, a 2nd-century writer, describe that one of the <b>best defences against elephants<\/b> was <b>pigs<\/b>. Their smell made the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/animals-and-hunting-in-world-of-romans\/\">animals<\/a> panic. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This, in turn, meant a deadly danger for his own <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/\">army<\/a>, as the scared elephant trampled everything on the road.<\/p>\n<p>It was for this reason that the mahouts had with them a special chisel, which, in the event of losing control of the animal, would stick it into its spinal cord, causing it to die quickly<sup class=\"footnote\" data-qtip=\"Titus Livius, Ad urbe condita, 27:49\" data-footid=\"1\">1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44452,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-104540","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/104540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/104540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=104540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}