Take for instance the jaguars, leopard, and mountain lion. The Kodiak bear is a giant by any reckoning, as is the American bison in the Ethnohistory gallery. When one looks at the elephant head and the skull of the extinct mammoth, a real sense of grandeur begins to dawn. In comparison with our own size, many of these animals are truly giants. Yet, they are themselves overshadowed by some of the gigantic animals of the past or those that still swim the seas.
Giants are in danger everywhere in the world.
We are running out of room for them. Many of the species represented here may become extinct in our life times unless measures are taken to preserve them.