Forget what you’ve seen in pretty much every cartoon containing an elephant ... bit too small for the appetite of such a big animal and most elephants don’t really like them very much.

If you’ve seen cartoon elephants before ... on to explain that it is not so much that it is a mouse- it can be any animal that makes a sudden move. Elephants have a keen sense of smell but ...

In an 1874 cartoon published in Harper's Weekly, Nast depicted a donkey (representing the Democratic press) in a lion's skin scaring away animals, including an elephant labeled "The Republican Vote." ...