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List of historical elephants

Table of contents
1 Historical elephants
2 Real things shaped like elephants
3 See also

Historical elephants

  • Abul-Abbas - Charlemagne's elephant
  • Hanno - pet elephant of Pope Leo X
  • Jumbo - P. T. Barnum's elephant
  • Kandula - the most famous elephant in Sri Lanka was given to an infant prince some 2000 years ago. The king and his elephant grew up together.
  • Mary - For reasons unknown, Mary, touring with Charles H. Sparks's World Famous Show, killed her inexperienced keeper Walter "Red" Eldridge on September 12, 1916, and was executed for that "crime" on September 13, 1916 in Erwin, Tennessee by being hanged by a railroad derrick car at the Clinchfield Railroad yard. The first attempt failed, as the chain suspending her snapped, and she dropped to the ground, breaking a hip. She was resuspended, and died.
  • Topsy - murderous elephant on Coney Island, electrocuted by Thomas Edison
  • Tuffi - a young elephant who fell from Wuppertal's suspended monorail into the river Wupper on July 21, 1950 (she survived the fall)

Real things shaped like elephants

See also





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