"And like medieval scholars drawing elephants they’ve never seen, we make those interpretations through the lens of our own biases."

Those images are quite amusing. They drew an elephant like a boar but with odd tusks. So the tusks were probably described correctly (semi-correctly) for the most part, but the size is totally wrong, which is weird. It's like ... "hey, I saw a thing with huge tusks but it was not bigger than a boar."

Or perhaps the one who drew this just imagined a strange boar, and never heard of the tusks. It's strange.