User blog comment:GSFB/Hannibal vs Zombies/@comment-3168561-20120728122356/@comment-5232784-20120728153140

The Elephants will be a deciding factor, I agree. But War Elephants where accustomed to death and misery on the battlefield, to seeing wounded warriors who looked like the living dead as well as movements of battlefield corpses by means of being walked on, stripped of weapons and gear, carried away for burial, etc. There was a hunter in Africa that while sleeping was found by elephants: thinking he was dead, they began to bury him with forest debris. When he got up, the elephants were not spooked, though they would have been no doubt surprised to learn they where burying a live man (elephants practice a primitive form of burial). And if war elephants are trained to be accustomed to a Zombie (the way horses where trained to be accustomed to elephants and camels, so that they would not be skittish), then they could overcome that skittishness (though this latter possibility won't be part of the battle).