Elephants have basic vision and eyes on the side of their huge heads with trouble focusing at a close range on things that scurry around quickly. In the wild a large animal with no natural predators like the elephant having poor vision is not much of a problem.
In small confined areas like zoos or the circus Elephants would be known to pull up their trunks, shake their heads and stomp their feet in the presense of mice trying to get a better focus. It does not appear that Elephants are "afraid" of mice at all..
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