This honor goes to the above blurb from Modern Mechanics magazine (click to enlarge), wherein naturalist Harry C. Ostrander foisted blatant pro-Babar propaganda upon an unsuspecting audience. Duplicitous trunked pretender! For more old-school taxonomic comedy, see J.W. Buel’s biological tableaus of humans being disemboweled by fauna of fin and foot.
https://gizmodo.com/this-gruesome-1889-biology-book-outlined-the-many-ways-5907479
[Via Modern Mechanix]