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Was he really the biggest elephant in the world? Ultimately, Karpinski and the rest of the team did find answers to these questions, and to many others. Read the original article. The Communications and Public Affairs Office is staffed from a. Monday to Friday. The University has a broadcast quality television studio to facilitate live and pre-recorded interviews with media.

One reason suggested for the trauma is that Jumbo was captured in Africa by hunters, and may have seen them kill his mother. In St. And the town's former mayor Steve Peters, a self-described Jumbomaniac with a collection of memorabilia ranging from part of Jumbo's tusk to a letter about him from PT Barnum, says the elephant has lessons for us now.

We're learning that they should be left in the wild. The Current Jumbo the Elephant: The life and mysterious death of the world's first animal superstar More than a century after his untimely death, the 19th century circus star Jumbo the Elephant remains larger than life.

Now a new documentary is separating fact from legend. Social Sharing. Thomas, Ontario. Jumbo and another well-known elephant, a dwarf named Tom Thumb, were being loaded into a boxcar after the show when suddenly an unscheduled freight train came around the bend and was bearing down on them. As Barnum told the story, Jumbo was trying to save Tom Thumb from the oncoming train by nudging the little elephant off the tracks. The train slammed into him and dragged him feet down the track before it finally derailed.

Scotty ran to him and quickly realized that Jumbo was dying. Scotty stayed by his side, and Jumbo held his hand with his trunk until the end.

It was only a matter of minutes. Those nearby said Scott had flown into a rage when he discovered it. Rumors abound that Jumbo had already been sick and dying from mistreatment, and was lead deliberately into the path of the oncoming train to prevent accusations of animal cruelty. A dead elephant could still make money.

Ward sent taxidermists William J. In , Barnum bought another elephant named Alice from the London zoo. Then she touched his skin with her trunk and again burst into a flood of tears. In , Barnum donated Jumbo to Tufts University in Massachusetts, of which Barnum was a founding trustee and benefactor. Jumbo joined the collection of the Barnum Museum of Natural History at Tufts, taking his place as the centerpiece among other rare and valuable taxidermied creatures from the circus.

The entrance to Barnum Hall had to be disassembled so the 1,pound elephant would fit through. Jumbo was known to smell a bit on rainy days, but students loved him. It soon became tradition to tug on his tail or drop coins into his trunk for good luck before a tough exam or a big game. One story says that Barnum himself once threw a party that served gelatin made from them. And the tail that was pulled for good luck was eventually tugged right off.

In , Barnum Hall was gutted by an electrical fire. No one was hurt, but Jumbo and the rest of the natural history collection was reduced to ashes.

Only the metal armature inside Jumbo that held him upright remained in the charred ruins.