Passage
As soon as I saw the elephant I knew with perfect certainly that I ought not to shoot him. It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant – it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery - and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided. And at that distance, peacefully cating, the elephant looked no more dangerous than a cow.
The elephant looked no more dangerous than a cow because

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A. it was quietly doing its work
B. unlike lions, it is a vegetarian animal
C. its tusks resemble the cow's homs
D. Cows can be very dangerous sometimes