Animal Gender Bender: Difference between revisions

** Averted in the book, in which there isn't a herd in the first place (although Hathi's sons hang around occasionally).

** This was also lampshaded toward the end, when Colonel Hathi is deciding whether or not he will help Baloo and Bagheera rescue Mowgli from Shere Khan. When Hathi refuses, his wife Winifred threatens him that if he does not help find Mowgli, then she will kick him out and take over the herd. Hathi's response:

** This is also true with [[Miscellaneous Disney Shorts|an earlier animated work]] called ''Goliath II''.

** The only animated Disney film to avert this trope and portray elephants as being led by females (just like in real life) was ''[[Dumbo]]''.