In the opening scene with Bomba riding an elephant, in the closeup shots the bird he is carrying is real, whereas in the long shots it is obviously fake.
The story takes place in Africa, but all of the elephants, except those seen in brief snippets of archive footage, are Indian, not African; in some of the sequences, obviously lifted out of previous films, large, artificial ears have been attached to the Indian elephants to make them look more like their African cousins, but the results are nothing more than ludicrous.