George Duke wrote on Fri, Mar 6, 2015 04:38 PM UTC:
Doing a prequel before turnimg to Tigers. there have always been
Elephants.
And in a renewal year 2002 by Aronson figurative White Elephants:
http://www.chessvariants.org/unequal.dir/white-elephant.html. A marauding
Elephant could be a predator notwithstanding the likely cause by that
creodont of the biological kingdom Humanity in either abuse or habitat
destruction.
Sittuyin of Burma has Elephant compounded of Ferz and forward Wazir, used
in the above CV White Elephant. The Great Elephant is both that plus Alfil
plus forward only Dabbabah.
The Chaturanga Elephant, http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/chaturanga.html, of historic proportion moves as namesake Alfil thus restricted each to 1/4 the squares on majority of boards used including 8x8.