1. Jumbo was exported to Jardin des Plantes, a zoo in Paris, and then transferred in 1865 to London Zoo in England.
13 Facts About Jumbo
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Jumbo was born around December 25,1860, in Sudan, and after his mother was killed by poachers, the infant Jumbo was captured by Sudanese elephant poacher Taher Sheriff and German big-game poacher Johann Schmidt.
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The sale of Jumbo sent the citizens of London into a panic, because they viewed the transaction as an enormous loss for the British empire.
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On May 17,1884, Jumbo was one of Barnum's 21 elephants that crossed the Brooklyn Bridge to demonstrate that it was safe, a year after 15 people died during a stampede precipitated by fear that the bridge might collapse.
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On July 6,1885, Jumbo was paraded in Saint John, New Brunswick, celebrating his first appearance in Canada.
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Jumbo died at a railway classification yard in St Thomas, Ontario, Canada, on September 15,1885.
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Barnum told the story that Tom Thumb, a young circus elephant, was walking on the railroad tracks and Jumbo was attempting to lead him to safety.
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Jumbo's hide was stuffed by William J Critchley and Carl Akeley, both of Ward's Natural Science, who stretched it during the mounting process; the mounted specimen traveled with Barnum's circus for two years.
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Jumbo was the inspiration of the nickname of the 19th-century Jumbo Water Tower in the town of Colchester in Essex, England.
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Jumbo is referenced by a plaque outside the old Liberal Hall, now a Wetherspoons pub, in Crediton, United Kingdom.
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Lafferty made other Jumbo-shaped structures, including Elephantine Colossus, on Coney Island.
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Canadian folk singer James Gordon wrote the song "Jumbo's Last Ride", which recounts the story of Jumbo's life and death.
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The 1941 animated film Dumbo released by Walt Disney Animation Studios was inspired by the story of Jumbo and is regarded as one of the greatest animated films of all time.