Viola
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Carson and Barnes Circus in United States

Viola lives together with 7 other elephants at the Carson and Barnes Circus:

1. ♀ Becky born 1969
2. ♀ Bunnie
3. ♀ Chang born 1972
4. ♀ Isa born 1970
5. ♀ Isla born 1968
6. ♀ Kelly born 1970
7. ♀ Lulu born 1975

Viola was born wild 1966? at Asia unspecified location.

Isa, Lilly, Alta, Viola, and Margaret were babies about mid chest high when I took them to Mexico City in 1975 for Atayde Bros Circus. //Wade Burck
The Circus No-Spin Zone, Carson and Barnes Elephants, 01/28/2009

2023: Reported dead, shortly after return to Ark Foundations from Circus World Museum.

2024, February; reported alive, on tour with Jordan World Circus.

From left: Viola and Kelly on Jordan Circus, Utah, 2024.

Viola at left, with slit in ear, performing in Utah January 2024, on tour with Jordan World Circus.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Ryan Easley, USA
  
• Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
  
• https://elefanten.fandom.com/wiki/Todesf%C3%A4lle_in_Amerika
  
• http://circusnospin.blogspot.com/2009/01/carson-and-barnes-elephants.html

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• More elephants from: Carson and Barnes Circus
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