Sivatherium giganteum in a jungle clearing. Sivatherium ('Shiva's beast') was an extinct genus of giraffid that ranged throughout Africa to Southern Asia (mostly India). Colour printed illustration by Heinrich Harder from Wilhelm Bolsche’s Tiere der Urwelt (Animals of the Prehistoric World), Reichardt Cocoa company, Hamburg, 1908. Heinrich Harder (1858-1935) was a German landscape artist and book illustrator.

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