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Pizarro II — Van Amburg Circus | mahoot

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Pizarro II

Van Amburg Circus · United States

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Record completeness

9 of 15 key fields populated

60%

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Life history

Born: 1851
Birth place: in Anuradhapura forest
Death reason: :
Origin: Wild-caught
Arrived: 1876-00-00

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Van Amburg Circus

United States · Camp

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Transfer history

1876-00-00
Van Amburg Circus
from Sands, Nathans & Co
1859-00-00
Southern Circus (Gilbert Eldred)
from Southern Circus (Gilbert Eldred)
1856-00-00
Sands, Nathans & Co
from Sands, Nathans & Co
1855-00-00
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
1851-00-00
P. T. Barnum
from P. T. Barnum
1851-00-00
Port of Colombo
from Port of Colombo
1851-00-00
Anuradhapura forest
from Anuradhapura forest

Sources

Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
Ryan Easley, USA
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

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