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

Biography

☨ ♀ Little Modoc

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 55 years old
Origin
Born:	* 1888 wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1943
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, in United States

Date of arrival

1919-00-00	Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from Ringling Bros. Circus

Record history
History of updates	2025-04-29

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24

† Little Modoc is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1943 at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, in United States, .

Origin

Little Modoc was born wild 1888.

Comments / pictures

I have seen a number of press items of her early career in Baraboo and appearantly Helfer did too and assumed this was his elephant Modoc. (The pictures in that book is Big Modoc, an elephant Helpher most likely never met) Both these elephants died in Sarasota Quarters. Big Modoc in 1957 at age 57 and Little Modoc in 1943 at age 50. //Buckles Woodcock

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Little Modoc, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 10 July 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2383. (archived at the Wayback machine)