† Josie is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1912 at Toledo Zoo, in United States, . Official death reason described as said to have strangulated while eating a sugarbeat to fast.
Josie was born wild at Asia unspecified location.
From a November 18th, 1951 Toledo Blade feature article on former Zoo director, Frank Skeldon, it said that Jose, who was purchased from Ringling Brothers Circus for $2500, in about 1905, was the star of the Zoo, until she “choked to death on a sugar beet”.
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