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I say give pigs a chance
>Romans and Pigs: A Tactical Maneuver. Despite their massive size and power, Pliny the Elder said of the animals that never forget: “elephants are scared by the smallest squeal of the hog”. Pigs appeared in written sources as tools of combat around 240 BC. Some histories said that the Roman legions would exploit the power of the squeal, by letting the pigs either run loose among the elephants, or hanging them from walls of retreating enemy buildings. It was alleged that just a mere squeak would cause the elephants to retreat. This was supported by Roman author and instructor of rhetoric, Aelian, who wrote that the Romans were using these strategies as early as 275 BC in the Battle of Beneventum. He stated: “The elephant has a terror of a horned ram and of the squealing of a pig. It was by these means, they say, that the Romans put to flight the elephants of Pyrrhus of Epirus, and that the Romans won a glorious victory.”