Is an elephant a person place or thing?

The Word 'elephants' is a noun, the plural form of the singular noun 'elephant'; a Word for a type of animal; a Word for a thing.

A pronoun is a Word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence. The pronouns that take the place of the plural noun 'elephants' is they as a subject, and them as an object in a sentence.

Example: The guide stopped the bus to let elephants pass by. They looked at us and we looked at them in awe.