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Jumbo (December 25, 1860 – September 15, 1885), also known as Jumbo the Elephant and Jumbo the Circus Elephant, was a 19th-century male African bush elephant born in Sudan. Jumbo was exported to Jardin des Plantes , a zoo in Paris , and then transferred in 1865 to London Zoo in England.
The museum was established by P.T. Barnum and displayed valuable exotic dead animals from his circus. His greatest prize was Jumbo the Elephant whose taxidermied hide was displayed. The building now known as Barnum Hall was gutted when a fire destroyed the entire collection inside on April 14, 1975. The building has since been reconstructed.
Bailey was instrumental in acquiring Jumbo, advertised as the world's largest elephant, for the show. [16] After Jumbo died, Barnum donated his taxidermied remains to Tufts University on whose Board of Trustees Barnum served as one of Tufts' first trustees. The Barnum Museum of Natural History opened in 1884 on the Tufts campus and Jumbo was a ...
The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-674-00591-0. Relates Barnum's Fiji Mermaid and What Is It? exhibits to other popular arts of the nineteenth century, including magic shows and trompe-l'œil paintings. Harding, Les. Elephant Story: Jumbo and P. T. Barnum Under the ...
The University mascot is named for Jumbo the elephant. P.T.Barnum donated this famous circus animal's stuffed hide to Tufts University, where it was displayed at the P.T. Barnum Hall for many years. The hide was destroyed in a fire in April 1975.
An obvious difference between African elephants and Asian elephants is their genera.These are two different species, with African elephants belonging to the genius Loxodonta and Asian elephants ...
Visiting Paris to attend the reopening of the Notre-Dame cathedral, Trump was greeted by Macron at the steps of the Elysee Palace. It was Trump's first foreign trip since winning the Nov. 5 U.S ...
The MV PT Barnum was built in 1999 by Eastern Shipbuilding in Panama City, Florida, at a cost of $14 million. She is 300 feet (91 m) long and 52 feet (16 m) wide, has capacity for 120 automobiles, and is named after the ferry company's co-founder, Bridgeport circus impresario PT Barnum.