What does a goad have to do with and elephant?

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The African elephant is the larger of the two species.

The head of an elephant heard would be the matriarch, which would be one of the oldest and more experienced females of the heard. Fully mature males (Bull's), don't usually stay with the heard,...

Many are called African or Asian.

The word may have come from Phoenician into Greek or Latin then into French then English. See the link for the on-line etymology.