I'm not sure. There are no indriks in these
parts, but AFAIK some regard the indrik as the father and/or king of all animals
-- other beasts made obeisance to it. It certainly belongs to the unicorn
family. Our Russian members may know more about it. As for _Indricotherium_,
it was named by a Russian palaeontologist who must have thought of the
indrik when he saw the enormous bones. Its shoulder height was the same as
that of the largest mammoths (4-5 m), but it had a rather long neck, so it
probably deserves the title of the biggest land mammal.
Piotr
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Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] One.
Can be the Indrik a derivation of Biblic RE'EM,
which was translated sometimes as "unicorn", but that appeared in Hebraic
legends as the biggest land animal (see Robert
Graves).