Jumbo
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Turin Zoo in Italy

Biography
dead elephant ☨ ♀ Jumbo  dead elephant



Identification


Description

Species:Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:Female ♀ 12 years old
Origin
Born:* 1948
Birth place:
Death
Dead: 1960
Death reason: disease: heart problems
Locations - owners
Present / last location:Turin Zoo, in Italy

Date of arrival

Turin Zoo
Record history
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† Jumbo is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1960 at Turin Zoo, in Italy, . Official death reason described as heart problems.

Origin

Jumbo was born 1948.


Comments / pictures

1959: In 1959, Oxford engineering student John Hoyte borrowed a 5,700-pound female Indian elephant named Jumbo from the Turin Zoo and walked her across the Mount Cenis Pass. The Turin Zoo had just acquired the female Asian elephant, Jumbo, who was trained as a circus animal. The owner of the zoo volunteered Jumbo and Ernesto Gobold, the elephant's trainer from Turin, and became the first sponsor of the expedition.

Jumbo in Turin Zoo
Jumbo the Elephant wearing boots © Northampton Museum and Art Gallery. These enormous boots were designed by Colonel Hickman and made by Lotus Ltd, Northampton factory, in 1959. Their thick leather soles and laced canvas uppers were machine-made and the four boots took about two months to make.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Jumbo, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Turin Zoo in Italy. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 28 March 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=12817. (archived at the Wayback machine)


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