—”Hope they are safe and find appropriate things to eat.”
YES!
There is something special about them.
Once read about an elephant with chains on his legs trapped UNDERWATER in a flooded river for days and survived!
I haven’t seen it in person, but watched a show on tv a long term me ago where elephants were swimming between some islands in Asia. The only thing above water was the trunk. Watching these beasts do a mostly submerged dog paddle for something more than a mile was pretty inspiring. I don’t recall how far they were able to swim, but anything beyond crossing a river seemed amazing.
Be careful. There are people here who think it’s just fine to spend many thousands of dollars to officials in African nations so that they can hunt elephants.
(They will condemn you as a ‘liberal’ if you object.)