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Thomas Nast's birth certificate issued under the auspices of the King of Bavaria on September 26, 1840 [1]. Thomas Nast (/ n æ s t /; German:; September 26, 1840 [2] – December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon".
In 1874, Nast also popularized the contrasting use of an elephant to similarly symbolize the Republican Party. [2] [3] The Republican Party has since used an elephant as part of its official branding. While the donkey is widely-used by Democrats as an unofficial mascot, the party's first official logo—adopted in 2010—is an encircled "D".
The cartoon titled "The Third Term Panic" shows a donkey wearing lion's skin scaring away other animals. One of the animals was an elephant with "the republican vote" written on it. This is where ...
The elephant is the state animal of Kerala and is featured on the emblem of the Government of Kerala, and previously on the coat of arms of Travancore. The elephant is also on the flag of the Kingdom of Laos with three elephants visible, supporting an umbrella (another symbol of royal power) until it became a republic in 1975. Other Southeast ...
Ganesha, with Elephant's head. Anubis – The jackal-headed Egyptian God. Bastet – The cat-headed Egyptian Goddess. Cynocephalus – A dog-headed creature. Daksha – His head was replaced by a goat's head after a beheading. Ganesha – An elephant-headed God. Hayagriva – A horse-headed avatar. Tumburu - A horse faced Hindu deity.
Traditionally, the scientific name for the donkey is Equus asinus asinus, on the basis of the principle of priority used for scientific names of animals. However, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled in 2003 that if the domestic and the wild species are considered subspecies of a common species, the scientific name of the wild species has priority, even when that ...
Donkeys are also referred to repeatedly in the writings and imagery of the Hinduism, where the goddess Kalaratri's vahana (vehicle) is a donkey. [11] Donkeys also appear multiple times in Indian folklore as the subject of stories in both the Hitopadesha [12] and the Panchatantra. [13] In Islam, eating the meat of domestic donkeys is forbidden. [14]
The Cremona elephant as depicted in the Chronica maiora, Part II, Parker Library, MS 16, fol. 151v Sketch of Hanno and mahout, after Raphael, c. 1514. The history of elephants in Europe dates back to the time of the Roman Empire, but previously, during the Ice Age, relatives of elephants were spread across the globe, including Europe.