Today marks a sad anniversary, for on this day in 1885, the most famous elephant star of them all, Jumbo met his untimely end on the railroad tracks. Born in the Sudan in 1861, Jumbo had previously been exhibition in Paris and London zoos until purchased by P.T. Barnum in 1881 — to a huge […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:39AM on September 15, 2013