Jumbo [SAFE]

Tragically, the mounted hide was eventually destroyed in a fire at Tufts University in 1975. His skeleton, however, still exists today at the in New York. Why Jumbo Still Matters Jumbo’s story isn't just a circus tragedy. It is the story of how we shifted from seeing wild animals as mystical creatures to seeing them as commodities. He was a living, breathing, feeling animal who was captured, caged, sold, shipped, and finally smashed by a machine.

Late at night in St. Thomas, Ontario, after a performance, Jumbo and a small elephant named Tom Thumb were walking back to their train car along the railroad tracks. Tragically, the mounted hide was eventually destroyed in

The buyer was , the circus king of America. Barnum offered $10,000 (a fortune in the 1880s) for the elephant. It is the story of how we shifted

He had Jumbo's hide stuffed and mounted. He had the skeleton preserved. For years, the "Ghost of Jumbo" toured with the circus as a double-feature attraction. Thomas, Ontario, after a performance, Jumbo and a

But long before it was an adjective, And his story is one of the strangest, saddest, and most sensational celebrity tragedies of the 19th century. From the Sudanese Desert to a Parisian Shop Jumbo was born sometime in 1860 in the dusty, wild region of what is now Sudan. As a baby, he was captured by poachers who killed his mother. He was just a terrified, 4-foot-tall calf when he was shipped across the desert and the Mediterranean Sea.

Suddenly, a massive freight train called the "Grand Trunk Express" came roaring out of the dark.

Standing at the shoulder and weighing over 6.5 tons , Jumbo was the largest elephant ever seen in captivity. He wasn't just big; he was Jumbo .