Interesting though, that seemingly unlike North America's Mammoths and Mastodon's, African Elephants never became a concentrated target for hunting enough to be driven into extinction.
Though that may just argue that they were unable to adapt to climate change in NA fast enough rather than being hunted to extinction.
It is this imho Animals in Africa are more scared by the sounds of people than lions.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/october/human-voice...
And the bigger ones like Hippos are hyper aggressive to humans, allegedly they kill more people than any other African animal.