Barnum Queen
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in United States

dead elephant ☨ ♀ Barnum Queen  dead elephant
Identification
Description
Species:Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:Female ♀ maybe about 48 years old (estimated age)
Origin
Born:* 1894? wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead: †1942?
Death reason: unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, in United States
Date of arrival
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
from Sparks Circus
1923-00-00Sparks Circus
from Circus Carl Hagenbeck-Stellingen
1921-04-00Circus Carl Hagenbeck-Stellingen
from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
1919-00-00Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
from Barnum & Bailey Circus
1894-00-00Barnum & Bailey Circus
from Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Neue Pferdemarkt)
Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Neue Pferdemarkt)
from Firma Carl Hagenbeck
Record history
History of updates2009-11-23: previous locations
2012-04-17: importer from asia
2012-04-20: text, reimport to europe
Latest document update2020-10-18 06:25:24
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Biography

† Barnum Queen is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1942? at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, in United States, .

Origin

Barnum Queen was born wild 1894?.


Comments / pictures

Apr death year, as well as arrival at Barnum from Hagenbeck 1904.

This elephant had been imported by the Barnum Show in the mid 1890's, she was included in the Herd that made the European tour, sold back to the Hagenbeck Zoo in April of 1921 along with Jess, Mary and "Vanita" for replenishment of the zoo's stock after WW1 and surprisingly made her fifth crossing of the Atlantic Ocean when purchased by Charlie Sparks in 1923. She is probably best remembered as the "surrogate" mother to the African "pygmies" imported by RBBB in 1936. [...] She was imported to Barnum & Bailey about 1894 and later made the 5 year European Tour with that show. After WW1 she and three more elephants were sold to the Hagenbeck Zoo to replenish their supply of animals and ironically made a fifth crossing of the Atlantic Ocean when purchased by Charlie Sparks in 1923.
I have no further record of her after 1942."
William Buckles Woodcock, 2008


This performance really did make John Ringling
whistle, and our wonderfully trained eighteen polar bears, twelve
Bengal tigers and the exotic item with fourteen zebras and camels also
pleased him mightily. In due course he wrote us a handsome cheque,
in addition transferring to us four elephants out of his American herd,
which by steady purchasing in these years since we last met he had
built up to some ninety animals.
Animals Are My Life, by Lorenz Hagenbeck


The other three elephants were Veneda, Jess, and Mary. (Maybe this Mary)


Records about Barnum Queen from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
From Buckles Woodcocks blog:
Barnum Queen in Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

William "Buckles" Woodcock
Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2021). Barnum Queen, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 19 January 2022 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1975. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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