> Just like medieval art, which was inaccurate¹ due to ignorance, not because the person doing the drawing decided to add some flare. There's a site showing ho

> Just like medieval art, which was inaccurate¹ due to ignorance, not because the person doing the drawing decided to add some flare. There's a site showing how Europeans drew elephants from popular descriptions once they disappeared from the continent: https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/index.html https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/index.html