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An elephant and a leopard confront each other on opposite sides of a stream in an Indian desert. Coloured lithograph by E. Leroux after A.-G. Decamps, 1853.

Siam (Thailand): a white elephant of the King. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.

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An elephant and a leopard confront each other on opposite sides of a stream in an Indian desert. Coloured lithograph by E. Leroux after A.-G. Decamps, 1853.

Siam (Thailand): a white elephant of the King. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.