How did animals that fought alongside humans (horses, elephants…) not panic when seeing all those members of their species dying, while getting poked with spears and shot with arrows?

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I always wondered. Because you would assume that horses just try to get the person off of it and run away. And how did something like the war elephant not just trample anyone to death? They are such smart animals and I’m sure they felt something by the sight of that. If I was a foot soldier I wouldn’t feel so great if there was some giant, armored, living tank berzerking around… Even if they supposedly are on “my side”.

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Training. Tourture. However you want to see it. They spent alot of time forcing/gaining the animals trust. Running them full speed into trees and stuff like that.

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