fact 39: How tall was Jumbo the elephant?
fact 39: How tall was Jumbo the elephant?
Jumbo the elephant was 3.2 metres (10.6 feet)
The word Jumbo now means big or large because it was the name of a really tall elephant.
Jumbo was originally named "Jumbe", the Swahili word for "chief".
Jumbo was a male African Bush Elephant.
Born late December (sometime near Christmas)1860 – jumbo died September 15, 1885 in a train accident in Canada.
Jumbo was born in Sudan.
Jumbo was captured by Arabian hunters in 1862.
He was first sold a travelling zoo in Germany then sold to a French zoo called Jardin des Plantes. London zoo maded a trad with France, London zoo gave them a rhinoceros and the Jardin des Plantes zoo gave England a massive elephant.
London (16 years) later sold the elephant to the American circus showman P. T. Barnum in 1882.
Jumbo was later killed in a train accident and then P. T. Barnum had jumbo stuffed and sold tickets for people to look at the elephant like when he was alive.
The stuffed jumbo was the burnt in a suspicious fire (P. T. Barnum circuses caught fire a lot).
