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Elephants are extremely dangerous animals. By the way, there is evidence that some elephants even reached Venus; however, it is unknown whether someone launched them there or they reached this celestial body on their own for unknown reasons.

So, here is the podium. But seriously, how do you launch an elephant into orbit?

The first cosmic velocity is the minimum speed at which a body moving horizontally above the surface of a planet will not fall onto it, but will move in a circular orbit.
For low Earth orbit satellites, it is 7.9 km/s; the satellite flies so fast that it does not have time to fall to the Earth's surface, like a motorcyclist in a circus inside a sphere. The greater the initial velocity imparted to the satellite, the higher its orbit will be. However, as it moves away from the Earth, the speed in a circular orbit decreases, and objects move in their orbits at a speed of only 2.5 km/s. In order for the elephant to fly for 5000 years, it needs to be lifted to a great height.
The Earth's atmosphere will also affect the elephant's movement: even being extremely rarefied at altitudes above 100 km above sea level (the conditional boundary of the atmosphere), it noticeably slows down the speed.

In addition, the elephant does not have rocket engines; it cannot maintain a constant first cosmic velocity, i.e., there must be an impulse that significantly exceeds the speed of 7.9 km/s.
The mass of the elephant is 5 tons.

With what force should it be thrown into orbit? I need to ask Horn; he knows how to solve such problems. I wrote to him in a private message.