Astonishing. How many hours are we going to have to trawl streetview before we find a dodo?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/18/2011 02:04PM by geg.

Well, here is a more recent cousin. This image isn't as clear as the Spanish one, I guess the Google cameras in America were substandard...

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Further off in the distance might be a Mammoth Cousin, hard to tell. This is to the right of the Mammoth Cousin:

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There's another statue of a mammoth in the Ciutadella park in Barcelona, claimed to be true to life.



To give an idea of its size: Tourists that want to be photographed while sitting on its trunk actually have to climb on it, i.e. the lower part of the trunk is about the same height as a man's waist.

A plaquette explains that the statue was made in 1907 for educational purposes. The Ciutadella park houses a Zoo and a Natural Sciences museum.



Its eye is the size of a dove.





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/14/2011 07:08PM by delacuesta.

That looks big. I would prefer the pygmy version.

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For dinner today I had Speckles in my soup and a mammoth not unlike the one above in my pukka pie (purchased naturally from a mamout supermarche.)

After having cycled to and from my new work since 1 June, I suddenly discovered something mammoth-like in a back garden en-route (about 10 km south of Amsterdam), that must have been present all the time:

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Its shape is a bit unclear and its exact species may be hard to determine. But on the other hand it is definitely more alive than the stony specimens I spotted in Spain.

Well spotted!!!!!!

From the angle of the camera the rear looks a little truncated.