SKELETON OF ELEPHANT

The Indian elephant, Elephas maximas is represented by a large, fully articulated skeleton of the solitary elephant exhibited in the centre of the gallery. The animal to which the skeleton belonged was a fully grown tusker of exceptionally large size, said to have been 11 feet in height, with a pair of enormous tusks. It had killed two men, and was eventually captured near Chengam, in Tamil Nadu in 1887.