Why did the elephant cross the road?

The elephants could cross such bridges, but this is a matter of every day experience.

Hannibal's Numidian cavalry carried on working on the road, taking three more days to fix it sufficiently to allow the elephants to cross.

If evolution had continued in that vein, the elephants and the dormice might have crossed in the middle!

One of the major difficulties in the region was terrain, and elephants could cross difficult terrain in many cases more easily than horse cavalry.

In one place seven wild elephants crossed the track, but two of them got away before I could overtake them.

He was on a tiger-shooting expedition, and as his elephant was crossing a nullah, it squealed.

According to folklore, elephants are used for such shows of strength because they are widely believed to have uncanny instincts and will not cross unsafe structures.

The scientists suggest that the elephants crossed into Borneo during one of those periods, but not since 16,000 B.C. at the peak of an ice age.

But elephants once crossed the Alps with Hannibal, so you can see how they might think that walking under the East River was no big deal.