 Martial reports a contest between an elephant and a bull , and the elephant , having won , knelt before Titus . This may have formed part of its training , but Martial attributed it to a spontaneous recognition of the Emperor 's power . He also mentions a bull enraged by fires in the amphitheatre being tossed around the arena before being killed by an elephant , but there is nothing to indicate that these two epigrams are about the same events or repeated many times during the span of one hundred days of celebration . 
