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Barnum Nellie

Houston Zoo · United States

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Life history

Born: 1914
Birth place: in Asia unspecified location
Death reason: unknown:
Age (est.): ~27 years
Origin: Wild-caught
Arrived: 1924-00-00

At this facility

Houston Zoo

United States · Zoo

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Transfer history

1924-00-00
Houston Zoo
from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
1919-00-00
Barnum & Bailey Circus
from Barnum & Bailey Circus
1888-00-00
Barnum and London Circus
from Barnum and London Circus

Sources

http://bucklesw.blogspot.se/2012/10/barnum-nellie-from-buckles.html
The Ringling Elephants 1888-1967, Bandwagon
Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants

Original record on elephant.se Back to database

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