A famous Loch Ness monster photo may be an elephant.
Loch Ness monster No. 2
Millions fooled by photo of an elephant playing in the water in Sri Lanka
[Update 8 March 2006
We were surprised this week to find that someone of prominence said they thought the Loch Ness monster may be an elephant.
Surprised because we thought this was old news — at least as far as it relates to the photo at left. We have had the following article on our website for years, with little change.]At first glance you probably could mistake this famous photo for a picture of the Loch Ness monster. Millions have.
But a sharp-eyed reader told us a program on the Discovery channel several years ago revealed that this photo was part of a sequence that showed the creature emerging from the water. And no, it wasn't the Loch Ness monster at all. It was an elephant in Sri Lanka!
Look at the three parts pictured. When it's pointed out to you that it's an elephant, you should be able to see that the profile clearly fits the top part of the elephant's back, head, and most of the trunk at the front. While the other famous Loch Ness monster photo was set up as a fake, this is actually a real photo that was deceptively marketed.
We must point out that we don't believe that the whole Loch Ness monster legend relies on people who don't know what an elephant looks like.
As far as we can tell, the sequence of photos that includes the one above is the only one of an elephant. And the photographer would have known what the picture was, so someone has deliberately tried to deceive with this photo. This photo was allegedly taken in Sri Lanka anyway, not at Loch Ness, so it seems silly to say that the Loch Ness monster is actually an elephant. It is only accurate to say that this photo is of an elephant. The other famous Loch Ness monster photo was not of an elephant, and looks nothing like one.
If you get the opportunity to see the 1962 Tarzan movie, Tarzan Goes to India, you will see similar-looking elephants (high back, strong hump on the head). The main starring elephant that belongs to the young Indian boy named Jai fits the description well.
Like all the Tarzan movies from 1918 until the 1960s, Tarzan Goes to India lets you have some fun testing how observant you are:
- The main elephant switches from having a short tusk to a long, pointed tusk, then a short tusk again. This happens throughout the film, even though the elephant supposedly is the same one.
- As Tarzan and Jai cross a calm, shallow river on an elephant's back, dangerous rapids suddenly appear, endangering the elephant. Then the scene cuts back to reveal calm water around them.
- In another scene, Tarzan swings on a vine that hangs from nowhere but the sky.
Enjoy it while you think of these phoney Loch Ness monster photos.
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