Summary: <p>Not-Elephants! They’re like elephants but WEIRD! Let’s take a look at a lot of extinct proboscidea this week.</p> <p>Oh, and the <a href="http://casualbirderpod.libsyn.com/">Casual Birder Podcast</a> episode where I talk about indigo buntings should be released this week, not last week. Oops.</p> <p>Gomphotheres, looking deceptively normal at first glance:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-666" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Gomphotherium-300x124.png" alt="" width="300" height="124"></p> <p>THEIR FACES AAAHHHH art by Pedro Toledo:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-667" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Gomphotherium-1-300x250.png" alt="" width="300" height="250"></p> <p>Cuvieronius and Notiomastodon, art also by Pedro Toledo. Note the spiral on Cuvieronius’s tusks:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-668" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Cuvieronius-and-Notiomastodon-300x244.png" alt="" width="300" height="244"></p> <p>Stegodon:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-669" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/steogodon-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225"></p> <p>Deinotherium, just going totally weird with the tusks and chin:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-670" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1200px-Deinotherium_giganteum_skull-251x300.jpg" alt="" width="251" height="300"></p> <p>It might have looked a little something like this when alive. What the actual heck:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-671" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/dinotherium1-300x168.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="168"></p> <p>Anancidae tusks were just out of control:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-672" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Anancus-300x170.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="170"></p>
