In September of 1885, the Barnum and Bailey Circus arrived in St. Thomas, Ontario. After the show, Jumbo and a small elephant called Tom Thumb were being loaded into a circus boxcar when an ...

But Jumbo was far more than the biggest act in the Barnum and Bailey Circus; he was also the world ... Was he really the biggest elephant in the world? How did he die? And was he suffering ...

Jumbo was a male African elephant owned by Tufts benefactor P.T. Barnum. Barnum purchased the elephant from the London Zoo and brought him to America in 1882. Jumbo was a huge attraction as part of ...

It is here that Jumbo Circus, operational since 1977 ... a time when animals used to be an active part of the acts – elephants wielding cricket bats, or a lion jumping through a ring of fire.