Elephantia

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Elephant Pass Away Peacefully At Her Forever Home

Front page of the Illustrated London News, January 26th 1884, celebrating the arrival of Toung Taloung to London .

Paul Éluard, 152 Proverbs.

Aesop's fables : The Lion, Jupiter, and the Elephant. 1912.  Illustration by V. S. (Vernon Stanley) Rackham.

A circus elephant from a Belgian zoo working on a farm during World War I after horses and mules were drafted to aid in the war effort (1915).

Elephants, many of whom have suffered serious abuse in the past, photographed wearing the knitted multi-coloured, pyjama-like garments knitted by local villagers.

By Yasushi Muraki.

Circus elephants Kiri and Many move a wrecked car in Hamburg in the aftermath of the Second World War, 5 November 1945. Unattributed.

Joseph Christian Leyendecker.

Elephant Orphans... Wisdom of the Wild segment about Daphne Sheldrick’s elephant orphanage.

Alenka Sottler, illustration for a fairy tale from Korea, "A Clever Rabbit," in Svetovne pravljice (World Fairy Tales) (Nova revija, 2004), b&w tempera on paper. via 50watts.

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out the show’s iconic elephants from its performances by 2018, saying public concern about animals treatment led to the decision.