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Jenny — U.S.A. unspecified location | mahoot

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Jenny

U.S.A. unspecified location · United States

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Life history

Born: 1851
Birth place: in Anuradhapura forest
Death reason: :
Origin: Wild-caught

At this facility

U.S.A. unspecified location

United States · Camp

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Transfer history

U.S.A. unspecified location
from Sands, Nathans & Co
1859-00-00
Seth B. Howes
from Seth B. Howes
1854-00-00
P. T. Barnum’s Grand Colossal Museum and Menagerie
from P. T. Barnum’s Grand Colossal Museum and Menagerie
1851-05-04
P. T. Barnum
from P. T. Barnum
1851-05-04
Port of Colombo
from Port of Colombo
1851-00-00
Anuradhapura forest
from Anuradhapura forest

Sources

P. T. Barnum’s Great Travelling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Hippodrome compiled by Richard A. Arnold, https://classic.circushistory.org/History/PTB1872.htm
The elephant in America 1840-1860, by Stuart Thayer, http://www.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/BW.htm'>Bandwagon
Page 14, 30, Elefanten in Zoo und Circus – Dokumentation Teil 2: Nordamerika, 1997, by European Elephant Group: Alexander Haufellner, Jürgen Schilfarth, Georg Schweiger

Original record on elephant.se Back to database

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