Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Blind Men's Elephants
Toto
1 First among Monsters
Storage
The Place Where Elephants Come to Die
The Elephant Corpse
Monstrorum princeps
2 Afraid of Mice
So Great a Stranger
The First and Grandest of Terrestrial Creatures
The Corral
Unendingly Melancholy
3 A Serpent for a Hand
The Monarch
Naturally Savage
A Creature of the Pleistocene
The Last Fell with Its Head Resting on the Other
4 The Most Friendly Creature
The Good Elephant
The Finest Zoological Building in the World
Forever Chained to One Damned Spot
A Grotesque and Tragic Figure
Dying in a Zoo
5 A Descendant of Mastodons
A Mud Show
The Mightiest of Living Creatures
Removing the Chains
Circuses and Zoos
6 The Last of Its Kind
The Spell of the Elelescho
The Alarm
Sic transit elephantus
7 Trails of History
Catching Apples, Looking at Mirrors, and Knowing Elephants
Tears
Notes
For Further Reading
Index
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