SOURCE: At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs (All-Story Weekly, April 4-25, 1914)
                Tarzan at the Earth's Core (Blue Book, September 1929)
                Back to the Stone Age (1937)

DESCRIPTION: "And into the clearing, along numerous trails that seemed to center at this spot, came as strange a procession as the eyes of these men had ever rested upon. There were great ox-like creatures with shaggy coats and wide-spreading horns. There were red deer and sloths of gigantic size. There were mastodon and mammoth, and a huge, elephantine creature that resembled an elephant and yet did not seem to be an elephant at all. Its great head was four feet long and three feet wide. It had a short, powerful trunk and from its lower jaw mighty tusks curved downward, their points bending inward toward the body. At the shoulder it stood at least ten feet above the ground, and in length it must have been fully twenty feet. But what resemblance it bore to an elephant was lessened by its small, pig-like ears. " (Tarzan at the Earth's Core by Egdar Rice Burroughs)

NOTES: The Tandor  is both a wild animal and a draft animal of the mammoth men in Pellucidar. In Tarzan at the Earth's Core we get the famous Tarag attack scene drawn wonderfully by Frank Frazetta. Von Horst befriends the tandor "Old White" in Back to the Stone Age (also a Frazetta illo).

HISTORY: Burroughs does a neat thing, basing the name "tandor" on the Mangani "Tantor" for elephant, so the two words are related.

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