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Columbia (Young America) — Barnum & Bailey Circus | mahoot

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Columbia (Young America)

Barnum & Bailey Circus · United States

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Babe and Columbia in 1880 at the Cooper & Bailey winter quarters in Philadelphia.

Record completeness

12 of 15 key fields populated

80%

Life history

Born: 1880-03-10
Birth place: in Cooper and Bailey Circus
Death reason: euthanised: strangulated, because of aggressiveness
Age (est.): ~27 years
Origin: Captive-born
Arrived: 1881-00-00

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Barnum & Bailey Circus

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Transfer history

1881-00-00
Barnum & Bailey Circus
from Cooper and Bailey Circus

Sources

W. Henry Sheak, The Elephant in Captivity, Natural History, September-October 1922
Elephants and Egotists by Patricia Sumerling

Original record on elephant.se Back to database

Data from elephant.se (Dan A. J. Koehl), CC BY 4.0. Reformatted for search.