elephants nephi

yahoo question asked: are there elephants in the americas?

maybe there are wooley mamoths in north america
but the book of mormon quote is talking about south america or mexico

see the yahoo link below for definitive archelogy
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090610144157AAaklK3

see the website about mormon answers:
http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/FQ_BMProb2.shtml#elephant

best answer was:
The Jaredites not only wrote their witness to the elephant, but they claimed the animal was of great use to them. The Jaredites lived in Americas long before Lehi and his family arrived.
Eminent Austrian Ethnologist, Dr. Robert Heine-Geldern reported to one Dr. Cyle Keeler that there were five elephant effigies found in Mexico.
Dr. Verrill, a well-known archaeologist who did fieldwork for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, when describing figures from Cocle, Panama said “The most astonishing of the idols is one bearing a figure which is so strikingly and obviously elephantine that it cannot be explained away by any of the ordinary theories of being a conventionalized or exaggerated tapir, ant-eater or macaw. Not only does this figure show a trunk, but in addition it has the big leaf-like ears and the forward-bending knees peculiar to the elephants. Moreover, it shows a load or burden strapped upon its back.”