I know this is an odd question, but has anyone ever heard of elephants eating the grasshoppers from a locust? I have read about lions, leopards, hyena and jackals eating them and I know Arabian horses will do the same if necessary, but what about elephants?

GunsCore, I certainly do not pretend to be an authority on African elephants, but I have doubt that they eat Locusts on purpose. That opinion however doesn’t mean that they do not consume large amounts of them when feeding on green vegetation infested with the bugs during heavy locust swarms.

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i think that if they eat enuf of them they can fly and turn pink

Don't see why not. we had a plague here in the 80's and my old man and local farmers association got Gov aid to spray them.

They lay in piles. It was after a drought and everything ate them . Our horses our sheep , cattle . We even had sheep and horses aborting due to the pesticide used.

Many herbivores will take advantage of a source of concentrated protein if presented, I can't imagine elephants being any different. I once watched a cow track down and eat a litter of cottontail rabbits, one at a time.