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The '''Keresh''' is the enormous [[deer]] of ''Be-Ila'i'', and it has but one horn.<ref>See [http://halakhah.com/pdf/kodoshim/Chullin.pdf Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli), Seder ''Kodashim'', Tractate ''Chullin'', Folio 59b (''Chullin'' 59b)]. ''scroll down to page'' 192.

The '''Keresh''' is the enormous [[deer]] of ''Be-Ila'i'', and it has but one horn.<ref>See [http://halakhah.com/pdf/kodoshim/Chullin.pdf Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli), Seder ''Kodashim'', Tractate ''Chullin'', Folio 59b (''Chullin'' 59b)]. ''scroll down to page'' 192.

</ref> The hide of the deer of ''Be-Ila'i'' is

</ref> The hide of the deer of ''Be-Ila'i'' is

sixteen [[cubit]]s long (24 feet).<ref>16 cubits = 288 inches, 24 feet, 7.3152 meters (one cubit = 18 inches = 0.4572 meters).</ref> Some of the Sages of the Talmud ([http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14240-tannaim-and-amoraim ''Tannaim'' and ''Amoraim'']) identify this creature as the legendary [[The Taḥash (legendary animal)|Taḥash]].<ref>[http://halakhah.com/shabbath/shabbath_28.html Babylonian Talmud, Seder ''Mo'ed'', Tractate ''Shabbath,'' Folio 28a PARTb (''Shab.'' 28ab)] —halakhah.com. <br/>"''Since there is the keresh, which is a species of beast, and it has only one horn, one can say that it [the tahash] is a kind of wild beast.''"</ref> It is associated with the Tigris, the giant lion of the same wild habitat. ''Be-Ila'i'' is a forest of this name according to [[Rashi]], also according to [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_12445.html Lewysohn]<ref>Lewysohn, Yehudi Leib Ludwig (1858) [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_12445.html ''Zoologie des Talmuds'',] p. 70. —jewishvirtuallibrary.org</ref>. According to [http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/cajs/jastrow/01.html Jastrow] it refers to the mountains of interior [[Asia]].<ref>Jastrow, Marcus (1926) [http://tyndalearchive.com/tabs/jastrow ''Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Bavli and Midrashic Literature''] p. 520, column a, top. '''טגרס טגרוס''' —tyndalearchive.com —''click on letter'' <big>'''ט'''</big> Tet, ''at top of page image select'' next page ''until page'' 520 ''appears''.  —" '''טגרוס ''': <small>m</small> (tigris, v. Sm. Ant. s. v.) ''tiger''. "</ref>

sixteen [[cubit]]s long (24 feet).<ref>16 cubits = 288 inches, 24 feet, 7.3152 meters (one cubit = 18 inches = 0.4572 meters).</ref> Some of the Sages of the Talmud ([http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14240-tannaim-and-amoraim ''Tannaim'' and ''Amoraim'']) identify this creature as the legendary [[The Taḥash (legendary animal)|Taḥash]].<ref>[http://halakhah.com/shabbath/shabbath_28.html Babylonian Talmud, Seder ''Mo'ed'', Tractate ''Shabbath,'' Folio 28a PARTb (''Shab.'' 28ab)] —halakhah.com. <br/>"''Since there is the keresh, which is a species of beast, and it has only one horn, one can say that it [the tahash] is a kind of wild beast.''"</ref> It is associated with the Tigris, the giant lion of the same wild habitat. ''Be-Ila'i'' is an unknown forest of this name according to [[Rashi]], also according to [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_12445.html Lewysohn]<ref>Lewysohn, Yehudi Leib Ludwig (1858) [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_12445.html ''Zoologie des Talmuds'',] p. 70. —jewishvirtuallibrary.org</ref>. According to [http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/cajs/jastrow/01.html Jastrow] it refers to the mountains of interior [[Asia]].<ref>Jastrow, Marcus (1926) [http://tyndalearchive.com/tabs/jastrow ''Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Bavli and Midrashic Literature''] p. 520, column a, top. '''טגרס טגרוס''' —tyndalearchive.com —''click on letter'' <big>'''ט'''</big> Tet, ''at top of page image select'' next page ''until page'' 520 ''appears''.  —" '''טגרוס ''': <small>m</small> (tigris, v. Sm. Ant. s. v.) ''tiger''. "</ref>

An awareness of ancient folklore having roots in prehistorical reality may have reasonably suggested to the Sages the actual existence of the enormous ''keresh''. Possible sightings and capture of what may have been a giant one-horned Eurasian rhinoceros (''[[Elasmotherium]]''), once native to the central Asian and European steppes, have been preserved in legends. The animal has anciently been called a "deer-like" beast with one big horn, a "big bull" with one horn on its head, and a giant "unicorn" with five colors.<ref>Five sources:

An awareness of ancient folklore having roots in prehistorical reality may have reasonably suggested to the Sages the actual existence of the enormous ''keresh''. Possible sightings and capture of what may have been a giant one-horned Eurasian rhinoceros (''[[Elasmotherium]]''), once native to the central Asian and European steppes, have been preserved in legends. The animal has anciently been called a "deer-like" beast with one big horn, a "big bull" with one horn on its head, and a giant "unicorn" with five colors.<ref>Five sources: