#dwarf elephant

[bjekkergauken]

The Maltese falconeri

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 76: 20th Century and Earlier III

If you could travel through time, but only to see something for Research or for fun, not to change anything, what would you pick? Yes you can have a Babel Fish, and are immune to injury and disease.

Paleolithic cultures in what became the Gulf of Thailand

Meet Gustav Klimt

1920's Paris party with Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Hemingway, Fitzgerald..

1923 salon with Queer Artists Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe

Survey of Dwarf Elephant and Stegodon behavior in the Philippines and Indonesia

Explore NYC 1890's (esp. lower East side)

Accompany John Snow on his 1854 London cholera investigation.

Visiting the "Lion City" under Qiandao Lake during it's heyday

Tea party with Constance Wilde

Ediacaran tide pools

Tehran, Iran 1952

The Olympic Games of 500 BCE

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[amnhnyc]

🐘 Elephants are part of a group called proboscideans, named for their proboscis, or trunk. Learn more about elephants and their relatives in The Secret Life of Elephants, open on November 13!

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[machetelanding]

[a-book-of-creatures]

Palaeoloxodon falconeri, Falconer’s dwarf elephant, by Zdeněk Burian

… whoops. Honey, I shrunk the elephants.

Remember when I said Palaeoloxodon was huge, bigger than a mammoth? Turns out it also occupies the other extreme of the elephant size continuum. Palaeoloxodon falconeri from Malta and Sicily is an example of insular dwarfism, where big animals evolve to be smaller on islands. In this case a fully grown adult P. falconeri was the size of a modern elephant calf.

Burian not only gives us some nice island scenery, but also helpfully adds some swans for scale. The result is surprisingly endearing and even cute.

[prettypachyderms]

Cute overload. 🐘♥️

[nazrigar]

A combination of my three loves. Alternate Timelines, History and Paleontology.

A result of playing too much Rome Total War and reading About Dwarf Mammoths. The Tilos Mammoth for example, went extinct during 4000 BC, JUST before the rise of the first bronze age civilizations.

I thought it’d be hilarious if, on the isle of Crete, a surviving dwarf elephant was spotted by some Romans and a local auxiliary. Imagine growing up, hearing tales of your ancestors fighting Hannibal’s War Elephants, knowing that they are scary and hard to kill, only to find an adorably tiny version no bigger than your dog back home. Of course one Legionnaire would want to keep it as the Legion’s mascot.

Meanwhile, the Cretan Archer is legit confused how he had not seen this thing despite growing up there.

[bjekkergauken]

Greek girl squad