Fannie (Fanny)
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) at
Ringling Bros. Circus in United States

Biography

☨ ♀ Fannie (Fanny)

Identification


Description
Species:	African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Sex and age:	Female ♀
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1908-11-00
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Ringling Bros. Circus, in United States

Date of arrival

1888-00-00	Ringling Bros. Circus from Forepaugh-Sells Show

	Forepaugh-Sells Show from Sells Brothers Circus

Record history
History of updates	2009-01-15: Text 2009-11-09: corrected death year 2009-11-14: corr. arrival sells bros 2012-04-12: text

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24
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† Fannie (Fanny) is a dead Female ♀ African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), , who died 1908-11-00 at Ringling Bros. Circus, in United States, .

Origin

Fannie (Fanny) was born wild .

Comments / pictures

Records about Fannie (Fanny) from Bob Cline

FANNIE (FANNY)
African Female 1887 to 1888 - Sells Bros. Circus
1888 - First elephant bought by Ringling Bros. Circus along with Babylon
1888 to 1908 - Ringling Bros. Circus
Died - Nov. 1908 in Baraboo quarters

Bob Cline, author of the book "Americas elephants".

The Ringlings got their first elephants in 1888 "Babe" and "Fannie" (an African) and they walked overland but by the time Edouard "Perl" Souder took over the Herd in 1894 the show moved on 39 railroad cars with 3 more ahead and carried 8 elephants. Two years later the Herd ballooned up to 23 and included the five Lockhart elephants from England which the Ringlings later bought and Souder worked for many years. The barns in the background remain the same today at the Circus World Museum.
Perl Souder #1, Buckles Web Log, 05/14/06

Jimmy Cole sent me this remarkable picture years ago. Looks like it was taken yesterday in Disneyland. On the horse at left is Edouard Souder, the young African is "Fannie" one of the first two elephants owned by the Ringlings, purchased in 1888 when the show still moved overland. With the exception of the Lockhart elephants, the Ringling Show never had many tuskers, the young one seen here is "Prince".
Ringling Bros. Circus 1894, Buckles Web Log, 12/30/08

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Fannie (Fanny), African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) located at Ringling Bros. Circus in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 23 May 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3083. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Page 20, 46, Elefanten in Zoo und Circus, Dokumentation 2 Nordamerika, 1997, by European Elephant Group: Haufellner, Schilfarth, Schweiger
Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants

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