Bedelia
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus in United States

Biography

☨ ♀ Bedelia

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀
Origin
Born:	*
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1913-04-00
Death reason:	accident: in the Floods in Peru
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, in United States

Date of arrival

1907-00-00	Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus from Carl Hagenbecks Wild Animal Circus

Record history
History of updates	2025-04-19

Latest document update	2016-12-12 19:06:52

† Bedelia is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1913-04-00 at Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, in United States, . Official death reason described as in the Floods in Peru.

Origin

Bedelia was born .

Comments / pictures

Records about Bedelia from Bob Cline

BEDELIA 1906 - Carl Hagenbeck Wild Animal Shows
Female Asian 1906 - sold to Ben Wallace in the fall
1907 to 1913 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
Died - April 1913 in the Floods in Peru, IND.
Bob Cline, author of the book "Americas elephants".

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Bedelia, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 June 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=13368. (archived at the Wayback machine)