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Sue — Clyde Brothers-Carden-Johnson Circus | mahoot

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Sue

Clyde Brothers-Carden-Johnson Circus · United States

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Record completeness

8 of 15 key fields populated

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Life history

Born: 1954
Death reason: poisoned: salmonella poisoning
Age (est.): ~25 years
Origin: Wild-caught
Arrived: 1978-00-00

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Clyde Brothers-Carden-Johnson Circus

United States · Camp

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Transfer history

1978-00-00
Clyde Brothers-Carden-Johnson Circus
from Clyde Bros. Circus (Howard Suesz)

Sources

Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2008/01/carly-peterson-1966.html
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2008/10/clyde-bros-circus-1956-9_15.html
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FF4gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NWUFAAAAIBAJ&dq=killed%20elephant&pg=4334%2C746711

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