Mammoth Video Siberia 1943

[Stardrive]

Then you'll find this interesting. This is the entire paragraph from the link:

With his great domed head and massive body it led the local villagers to believe that they had a mammoth in their midst. However research by eminent zoologist Prof Adrian Lister, who extracted DNA from his dung, showed that he was a type of Asian elephant. His unusual shape may have been due to isolation or perhaps a connection with a prehistoric elephant named a Stegodon. A fossil skull of one of these ancient creatures had been discovered by a German palaeontologist in East Nepal. For ten years Colonel John Blashford-Snell (JBS) and SES teams studied Raja Gaj and found a herd of up to 50 including cows and calves.

What jumps out at me is "type of Asian elephant". Sounds a bit odd, like thier not sure what type it is, but whatever. I saw a show on TV about it one time and the theory was it was inbred because of it's isolation causing primative features to become more pronounced. OR, it's somehow related to a Stegodon.

[Junior Chubb]

Great find on the source of the clip Stardrive...

[Kahn]

It's from a BBC show Walking with Beasts. They just zoomed in, inverted it, desaturated it, and added grain. At the 19:00min mark it's front center bottom.

[media=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMOhU8_Lt2E[/media]

Excellent catch!

[+DieChecker]

Stardrive is correct Raja Gaj came up Asian Elephant. Arguing otherwise is like saying Andre the Giant must have been a different species because he was so much larger then a normal person and he had dozens of anatomical differences. It is said he had twice as many teeth as a normal person.

[Lopex]

Awe… I wanted it to be real...

[Marozi]

To sadly add: Kancha (the smaller elephant bull) died long ago and Raja Gaj is most probably also dead (his remains have never been found but he is missed for years now).

[Kahn]

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